A recent article from Smart Business (a online business-management journal) titled “How to set up a safety committee and reduce workers’ compensation claims,” helpfully explores one preventative aspect of the workers’ compensation system. By setting up an in-company “safety committee,” the article asserts, both management and employees can create an environment that helps reduce injuries. [...]
A high profile personal injury case in Pennsylvania, New Jersey’s next-door-neighbor, is on its way to being put to rest. A few years ago, Carrie Goretzka stepped outside to call the power company and report an outage and downed line on her property, 30 miles east of Pittsburgh. No one knows exactly what happened that [...]
On the morning of June 17, 2010, Daniel Cordeiro drove two of his employees to a jobsite. Cordeiro was the owner and supervisor of “Danny’s Construction Company,” a business that focused its efforts primarily on masonry and concrete work. On that day, however, due to jobsite conditions, they arrived to realize that they wouldn’t be [...]
There is some recent and ongoing controversy surrounding the expansion of Avalon Bay Communities Inc., the country’s second largest publicly traded apartment developer. Currently, Avalon Bay operates, or is in the process of building, nearly 20 residential complexes in New Jersey. But a report released by 32BJ SEIU (Service Employees International Union), the largest property [...]
An employee seeking to be compensated for work-related injuries or diseases must often overcome a number of dizzying hurdles. Access to workers compensation is not always a simple matter. But a new bill under consideration in the New Jersey Assembly seeks to make the process somewhat easier for a certain segment of our population. The [...]
Placing a family member in a nursing home can be an emotional and tolling process. Families spend much time conducting research when searching for a nursing home that can provide the highest degree of care in tending to the specific needs of their loved one. While many nursing homes do provide a high level of [...]
Too often we see employees suffer catastrophic injuries at the workplace. These injuries frequently include neck injuries, ankle injuries, back injuries, brain injuries, and sometimes even death. A Patterson woman was unfortunately one of these worst case scenarios when she was killed on the job after the bed of a dump truck she was working [...]
As New Jersey workers’ compensation attorneys, we see too many instances of employers and/or their insurance companies trying to save money by not taking care of their employees. And, in doing so, employees sometimes suffer reductions or violations of their basic rights. In order to make sure you are getting the maximum benefits you are [...]
You’ve been receiving treatment with your own doctor after your worker’s compensation accident, and you’re very happy with them. But for some reason, the insurance company wants you see another doctor. Why? The insurance company does not want to payout on any injury in which you are misdiagnosed or treated improperly. They want to verify [...]
