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Special Workers' Compensation Alert - New Jersey
On April, 19, 2021, New Jersey Governor, Phil Murphy, signed into law bills S-2476/A-3998 which affects workers’ compensation dependency benefits.
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Special Workers' Compensation Alert - New Jersey
The New Jersey Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision today.
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The Board denies claimant’s DCD petition, based primarily on literature cited by employer’s medical expert that typing and keyboard work do not increase the likelihood of developing carpal tunnel syndrome.
This case involved a DCD petition in which the claimant alleged that he suffered bilateral carpal tunnel s
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The language in the petition indicated a dispute was enough to justify the IME. The statute requires that there be a dispute before a party can obtain an IME.
The employer/carrier filed a motion to compel the claimant’s attendance at an independent medical examinat
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The nurse can have ex parte communications with the doctor because the claimant acknowledged that she was an agent of the carrier.
This matter was before Judge Weiss on an evidentiary hearing after the claimant filed a motion for protect
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The plain language of 440.15(e)(1) allows the employer to obtain a vocational assessment, and the change in attendant care after the PTD acceptance was a sufficient basis to trigger the employer/carrier’s right to a vocational assessment.
In this case before Judge Stanton in Gainesville, the employer/carrier filed a motion to compel a vocation
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Supreme Court reverses Appellate Division’s decision (injury was not compensable as it occurred at an employer-sponsored social/recreational event), finding petitioner entitled to compensation as her role at the event was neither social nor recreational.
In this unanimous opinion, the New Jersey Supreme Court reversed an Appellate Division’s decision—that the
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Court addresses the retroactivity of the Supreme Court’s decision in Whitmoyer, holding an employer is required to reimburse medical payments as of the date Whitmoyer was decided, not as of date of a signed third-party settlement agreement.
In this case, the claimant sustained a severe injury while using a stone crusher that malfunctioned.
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