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Your Options When You’re Hurt by a Third Party on the Job In New Jersey, as in all states, when you’re injured while working, your first course of action will typically be to notify your employer and file a workers’ compensation claim. The requirements to qualify for workers’ comp are pretty straightforward: you must have suffered an...

Winter Conditions Contribute to Annual Rise in Job-Related Injuries It’s winter in New Jersey, which means ice and snow. And if you work outside, it can mean a greater risk of injury on the job. But even if most of your work is inside, you might still be at risk. Statistics show that work-related injuries...

What Rights Do You Have With Respect to Who Treats You? You’ve been hurt on the job, and it’s either making it difficult for you to work, or it’s preventing you from being gainfully employed. Your first concern, after any injury, is about getting the care you need so that you maximize the likelihood of...

Can You Qualify for Benefits If You Aggravate an Old Injury? You’ve suffered some type of injury that prevents you from working. Maybe it happened at your current job, or maybe it happened before you came to your current employer. Maybe it wasn’t even related to your job—suppose you hurt yourself playing sports when you...

Mstakes That Will Put Your Claim at Risk The New Jersey workers’ compensation laws are pretty straightforward. As in other states, you don’t have to prove that your employer’s negligence caused your workplace injury. You only need to show two things: that you were hurt and that your injury happened during the course of your employment....

Under the workers’ compensation law of New Jersey, an injured worker doesn’t need to establish that the employer was negligent in order to receive benefits. Because workers’ comp is essentially based on the concept of strict liability, a person needs to show only that they suffered an injury and that the injury was work-related. In the first...

Injuries Suffered While Traveling for Work In New Jersey, as in all states, workers’ compensation benefits are available to injured workers without evidence or proof of negligence by the employer. Generally, the only requirements to qualify are evidence that you were injured and that the injury occurred while you were working. In the first blog in this...