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The Board denies the claimant’s DACD petition by accepting the medical opinion of the employer’s expert in concluding that the claimant’s latest cervical spine surgery was not compensable.
This case presented an interesting medical causation issue on a spinal surgery involving the adjacent segment disease
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Claimant injured in car accident while on a morning “lunch break.” Judge denies compensability as the lunch break was purely personal in nature and of no benefit to the employer. Judge also held that neither the special hazard nor dual purpose exceptions
This case involves an employee who took her lunch break in the morning so that she could take her son to school.
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Judge denies claimant’s petition as the statute of limitations had run and agrees that a doctor visit and prescribed medication were unauthorized.
The employer asserted that the statute of limitations had run on the claimant’s 2011 work injury when the claimant fil
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The judge finds that the claimant made false representations and holds entire claim was barred.
The claimant filed a petition seeking compensability of a hip and ankle injury.
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The Appellate Division affirms the dismissal of a third-party complaint filed by a general contractor seeking indemnification from its subcontractor for a tort action filed by the subcontractor’s injured employee.
In this decision involving the exclusive remedy provision of the New Jersey Workers’ Compens
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