{"id":1061,"date":"2016-08-23T17:44:45","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T17:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/?p=1061"},"modified":"2016-08-05T17:47:46","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T17:47:46","slug":"aplicacion-del-derecho-de-retencion-de-la-indemnizacion-por-accidente-laboral-a-los-gastos-medicos-del-demandante-con-cobertura-pip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/es\/2016\/08\/application-of-workers-compensation-lien-to-medicals-of-plaintiff-with-pip-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"Aplicaci\u00f3n del derecho de retenci\u00f3n por accidente laboral a los gastos m\u00e9dicos del demandante con cobertura PIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since a decision was rendered in the case of <em>Dever v. New Jersey Mfrs. Ins. Co.<\/em>, plaintiffs\u2019 counsel have been contending that defendants do not have a legal claim on medical expenses paid in workers\u2019 compensation from a job-related motor vehicle accident in which the plaintiff had PIP coverage, or personal injury protection. However, courts have not been adhering to the decision in <em>Dever<\/em>, and workers\u2019 compensation carriers were again successful regarding this issue in <em>Talmadge v. Burn<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>While employed by Child and Family Services, Inc., Tina Talmadge suffered an injury. She was driving her car when it was hit by a vehicle that was driven by Ms. Burn. A cervical fusion procedure was performed on the plaintiff, and the workers\u2019 compensation carrier, The Hartford Insurance Company, paid her medical and indemnity benefits in the amount of $127,000. The Hartford tried to get reimbursed for two-thirds or about $84,500, and interceded in the case in which the plaintiff secured damages in the amount of $250,000. <\/p>\n<p>Although the plaintiff admitted that she owed two-thirds of the indemnity benefits, she contended that the reason The Hartford did not have any right to a legal claim on medical benefits was that she was a no-fault insured driver and thus, was unable to recoup medical benefits from Ms. Burns, who was also a no-fault insured driver. She argued that if she was unable to regain medical benefits, then the insurance company could not either. However, both the trial and appellate courts refused to accept her contentions. <\/p>\n<p>At first, when an employee is injured in a motor vehicle accident during the course of employment, workers\u2019 compensation is the principal source of payment of the workers\u2019 medical bills. The Court said that in cases where an employee who is injured in a motor vehicle accident, and also has a third-party claim for recovery, the law conquered the potential unfairness of double recovery by mandating that an injured employee reimburse paid workers\u2019 compensation benefits upon recovery of benefits from the tortfeasor.<\/p>\n<p>[footer block_id=&#8217;721&#8242;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Desde que se dict\u00f3 la sentencia en el caso Dever contra New Jersey Mfrs. Ins. Co., los abogados de los demandantes han sostenido que los demandados no tienen derecho a reclamar los gastos m\u00e9dicos abonados en concepto de indemnizaci\u00f3n por accidente laboral a ra\u00edz de un accidente de tr\u00e1fico relacionado con el trabajo en el que el demandante contaba con cobertura PIP (protecci\u00f3n contra lesiones personales). Sin embargo, los tribunales\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[273,274,272,66,238],"class_list":["post-1061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-workers-compensation","tag-auto-accident","tag-cervical-fusion","tag-motor-vehicle-accident","tag-new-jersey","tag-workers-compensation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1061"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1064,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions\/1064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}