Work Injuries

Each year, hundreds of New Jersey employees are injured while working. Fortunately, every business with employees in New Jersey must have workers’ comp insurance to cover medical expenses and lost wages for employees injured on-the-job. If you have been in a workplace...

Workplace accidents are a reality that many New Jersey workers must face every year. When an accident happens and a worker gets hurt, they may lose time from their job and the important pay they need to support themselves in their families. Workers’ compensation is a...

After suffering a serious on-the-job injury, a hurt worker may have a lot to think about. In addition to having their injury treated and their pain managed, they may worry about how they will do their job so that they can support their family. In New Jersey, a worker...

Workplace injuries are somewhat common in New Jersey, but not all result from traumatic and sudden accidents or events. Some New Jersey workers suffer harm over time, slowly developing medical conditions that require treatment and impact their abilities to work. These...

There has long been a dispute in New Jersey as to when workers were technically on the job and could receive workers’ compensation benefits for injuries. This is an important technicality as a person who was about to enter the workplace and was injured but had not...

Nobody goes to work expecting to get hurt. Yet, tens of thousands of New Jersey residents are injured in workplace accidents each year. That figure might be staggering, but so, too, are the very real financial damages that can result from one of these incidences. A...

Although some jobs, such as in the construction or transportation industries, put workers more at risk for injury than other lines of work, injuries can occur in any occupation. While every state has different worker’s compensation (WC) laws, in New Jersey all...

As we have noted on this blog many times, accidents can happen in any kind of workplace, to any kind of worker. Recent statistics show how widespread the problem is. According to a news release from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were about 69,000 work-related...

Workers’ compensation is a vital benefit for injured workers who should be familiar with the different types of benefits they need. Injured workers, workers suffering with an occupational illness and their families should know the specific protections available...

Working from home and telework is no longer a choice but necessary for many businesses to continue their operations. But work-related injuries can still occur even if an employee is working from their couch, dining room table or newly created workspace. Remote workers...