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…

When hired and periodically after they are hired, employees should be provided with an explanation of their workers’ compensation coverage and benefits, when and how to report a workplace injury and where to seek medical treatment if injured at work.

There is no requirement of a full trial in the majority of workers’ compensation claims. Most can result in settlement upon consideration of your testimony by the judge and thereports of your medical evaluation. In the event a settlement offer is made, it will be explained to you so that you can make a decision…

It is illegal for your employer to terminate your employment while you are out of work due to an injury and receiving workers’ compensation. Your employer is legally forbidden from retaliating against you for seeking workers’ compensation benefits. If you think you were terminated in retaliation for filing a workers’ compensation claim or due to…