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In this article, we look at Section 20 settlements which define lump sum payments without any right to reopen cases. 

In this article, we discuss the types of activities employees can engage in while receiving temporary disability and those that can eliminate an employee from receiving benefits.

Governor Murphy has delivered his record setting fiscal plan for 2025.

What is a double recovery and how can it help an employer recover Workers' Compensation payments? Read more in this article.

A recently approved amendment will add Workers' Compensation costs employers pay.

What key drivers are resposible for growing Workers' Compensation costs? Learn more in this article.

This Q&A article was developed based on questions commonly asked to the author, John H. Geaney, Esq. of Capehart Scatchard, P.A.

What has contributed to New Jersey's workers' compensation costs being the highest in the nation? Here are 5 factors that are escalating workers' compensation costs in the state.

A new NJ bill will require public venues and places of workship to submit emergency plans pertaining to potential mass casualty or active shooter events to local law enforcement.

Where do New Jersey employers and municipalities stand today with respect to marijuana and workers’ compensation? In this article, we examine New Jersey's mariajana laws and where employers are responsible to provide workers' compensation.

In his article, we address what municipal managers need to know about settlements of permanency claims and what can be done to reduce awards.

​Here are some key questions that defense counsels receive in the handling of claims against public employers.

The recent passing of the New Jersey Legislature's S771 ruling has some employers questioning whether or not accidents that occur in parking lots are considered work related. Read more in this article.

NIP Group is proud to announce the launch of a new video management pilot program for their police departments members of the Garden State Municipal Joint Insurance Fund (GSMJIF) and Public Entity Joint Insurance Fund (PEJIF).

There are many issues pertaining to volunteers in New Jersey and most of them center on municipal workers.  Any discussion of the topic of volunteers must begin with the definitions of employee and volunteer.

Does workers' compensation apply to injuries that occur during travel? In this article we examine some questions surrounding the Workers' Compensation laws in New Jersey and how they apply to travel.

On May 28th, 2021, the New Jersey Department of Health updated its guidelines for how municipal and private pool clubs can maintain safe COVID practices. Pool owners/management must follow the guidelines listed as follows.

There are a number of important developments affecting public employers in workers’ compensation. Two of them concern COVID-19 claims, and one involves a rather alarming piece of legislation that, if passed, will affect all New Jersey employers in respect to the ability to terminate employees who reach maximal medical improvement.

​The New Jersey Supreme Court decision on April 13, 2021 in Hager v. M&K Construction will have a significant impact on public employers in the state, potentially increasing the cost of medical care by requiring reimbursement of medical marijuana expenses.

When a traumatic work event occurs with severe employment consequences, the public employee who applies for an accidental disability pension (ADP) almost always also applies for workes’ compensation benefits.  The law is clear that the employee cannot keep both awards, but who gets the offset?

As COVID-19 continues to infect millions of Americans and vaccines begin to be offered to certain employees and residents of New Jersey, municipalities are facing some novel and challenging issues involving workers’ compensation and a variety of other laws. This blog focuses on several cutting-edge issues facing municipalities.

One of the pillars of the New Jersey Workers’ Compensation Act has been the rock solid “premises rule,” which has been in place since 1979 when the workers’ compensation law was substantially amended. 

Most workers know that the daily drive from home to work and from work to home is not covered for workers’ compensation purposes.  But where does that rule come from?  Before 1979 it came from case law which created the concept of the “going-and-coming rule.”

As COVID-19 workers’ compensation claim petitions begin to get filed and as employees begin to return from remote work assignments, municipalities have been asking important questions. Read more

One of the unusual features in New Jersey workers’ compensation law is that medical providers cannot bring collection law suits in civil court against injured workers or against employers, insurance carriers, joint insurance funds or their third party administrators. Read more

The impact on municipalities in Workers’ Compensation from COVID-19 and the Canzanella Law. Read more.

Certainly the most pressing issue in workers’ compensation right now for public employers is how to manage occupational claims for COVID-19. Read More.