By Tanya Phillips If you are unable to work due to an illness or injury, you are entitled to State Temporary Disability Benefits. The main requirement is that you are employed by an eligible New Jersey company. To secure benefits you must complete an application which can be found here. Your doctor and employer must complete [...]
By Tanya Phillips In New Jersey, workers’ compensation benefits are no fault. This means that workers are entitled to benefits regardless of fault for the incident. The first thing you should do if you are injured while in the course and scope of your employment is report the accident and your injuries immediately to your [...]
Injuries on the job in New Jersey that involve a traumatic or specific accident must be reported to your employer and to the workers’ compensation insurance company within 90 days of the date when they occur. Neglecting to report within 90 days makes it much more difficult for you to obtain benefits. Be aware that [...]
Considering the expenses that can follow the unfortunate event of an accident or injury, it may not seem like the most convenient time to invest your money in hiring an attorney. Fortunately, in New Jersey lawyers have a responsibility to potential clients to offer choices of payment options from which a client can select based [...]
You were in an accident, and the other party’s insurance company has sent you a document to sign which would release the other party for your injuries. You need to be very careful, as this may have huge implications for not only your case, but for your well-being well into the future. Do not sign the [...]
Every state has its own set of laws that govern how to file wrongful death lawsuits. In New Jersey, wrongful death is defined as being any death that was caused by some sort of wrongful act or neglect. The conditions of that death must be that had the victim lived, he or she would have [...]
Reckless endangerment is one of those legal terms which are heard a lot but is rather difficult to understand and specifically define in every situation. In legal terms reckless endangerment occurs when someone does something with the intentional disregard for the safety of another person or other people. This action has to be deliberate and, [...]
A wrongful death case is a type of civil suit that can be filed by the survivors or the estate of a person that died due to someone else’s negligence or intentional actions. Usually, the person that actually files the lawsuit will be the representative of the victim’s estate, but the beneficiaries of the suit [...]
Emotional distress damages are more challenging to address through the legal system because of the very nature of the emotional pain. Unlike physical pain or injury that can be demonstrated, quantified and visible, emotional pain and suffering because of psychological trauma is invisible and highly subjective. However, this doesn’t mean that emotional distress cannot be [...]
[bs_row class="row"] [bs_col class="col-sm-2"][/bs_col][bs_col class="col-sm-8"] [/bs_col][bs_col class="col-sm-2"][/bs_col] [/bs_row] The time immediately after a car accident is frightening and stressful. There is a whole list of steps that you need to remember to take, from checking for injuries to getting all of the necessary contact information from other parties in the accident and speaking [...]
