The Potential Pitfalls of Waiting to Get Medical Care
When you’ve been hurt in an accident and your injuries seem minor, you can have a tendency to try to ignore them or shake them off. Whether it’s sense of false bravado or you simply … [Read more…]
Motor Vehicle Accident Claims Involve Complex Legal and Factual Considerations
Making the Wrong Legal Decisions Can Be Costly
You’re injured in a motor vehicle collision and the facts seem to be pretty straightforward. Maybe you think you can … [Read more…]
Situations Where a Work Comp Claim Will Often Be Denied
In New Jersey, as in other states, when you have been hurt in the workplace, you have the right to seek benefits through a workers’ compensation claim. There’s no need to show negligence… [Read more…]
Will You Be Prohibited from Recovering Compensation in a Motor Vehicle Accident Claim?
You were injured in a car, truck or motorcycle accident, but you were partially to blame. Maybe you were exceeding the speed limit at the time of the crash, … [Read more…]
False Beliefs about Your Right to Compensation after a Workplace Injury
You’ve been hurt on the job and can’t work. You think that you may be eligible for workers’ compensation benefits, but you’ve heard a lot of stories from others about what … [Read more…]
Protecting Your Rights to Recover Workers’ Compensation Benefits
When you’ve been injured on the job in New Jersey, you have the right to seek benefits under the state’s workers’ compensation laws. There are generally only two requirements for … [Read more…]
Injuries Suffered on a Break | Injuries While Traveling
To qualify for workers’ compensation in New Jersey, you must prove only two elements of a claim: that you were injured and that the injury was “work-related.” There is no need to establish… [Read more…]
Are There Other Legal Remedies Available to You?
The New Jersey workers’ compensation laws were enacted as the “great bargain,” ostensibly to benefit both workers and business owners. The system eliminates the need for a worker to show that his… [Read more…]
Recovering Benefits When You Have Been Hurt in the Workplace
According to statistics collected by the United States Department of Labor, more than three million workers are injured on the job across the United States every year, but less than h… [Read more…]
Ways that You Can Jeopardize Your Full Recovery after a Wreck
Motor vehicle accidents are the most common cause of personal injury in the United States, with National Highway Traffic Safety Administration statistics showing an average of almost… [Read more…]