Unfortunately, there is nothing to prevent an employer from cancelling your health insurance while you are unable to work due to injury. There are protections provided at the federal level by the Family Medical Leave Act and COBRA, however. These programs mandate a continuation of healthcare coverage for you while you are injured if you…

Part-time and seasonal workers are covered by workers’ compensation if they are injured within the scope of their employment. If the employer pays a worker a wage or salary and deducts taxes, the employee is covered, regardless of whether they have worked a day or a decade. Independent contractors and volunteers are not covered by…

No, it is illegal for an employer to terminate an employee for making a workers’ compensation claim. There is a separate process for workers who believe they were retaliated against for filing a workers’ compensation claim.

It is common for employers and workers’ compensation insurers to tell workers suffering workplace injury to seek treatment from a particular doctor. The employer or insurer pays that doctor, and all the bills for treatment go to them and not the worker. That helps the worker to avoid medical bills, but the doctor, ultimately, works…

Under the law, your employer must provide workers’ compensation benefits to you as soon as you are hired. You do not have to wait a certain length of time before you become eligible.

The Second Injury Fund (SIF) is a state program that will make contributions toward your disability benefits in the event your previous injuries and disabilities, along with your current workers’ compensation injury, render you entirely and permanently disabled. The rationale behind the SIF was to persuade employers to hire disabled workers by reducing, in the…

Yes, under New Jersey law, your employer must post a notice about workers’ compensation in a conspicuous spot at your workplace. This poster must include the name of your employer’s insurance carrier as well as other information required by the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance.

Yes, under New Jersey law, your employer must post a notice about workers’ compensation in a conspicuous spot at your workplace. This poster must include the name of your employer’s insurance carrier as well as other information required by the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance.

Your claim for workers’ compensation could be denied if you waited too long to file it or if the accident or sickness that resulted in your disability did not take place during the course of your employment. In addition, your claim could be denied if you have insufficient or incomplete medical records. Your claim may…