When you’ve been hurt because of someone else’s carelessness, you can feel the financial impact in many ways. You may be unable to work or face substantial unreimbursed medical bills. You may need to make structural changes in your home to a… [Read more…]
In New Jersey, when you have sustained an injury on the job, your first course of action will typically be to notify your employer and initiate a workers’ compensation claim. The process can seem simple—you just notify your employer and let th… [Read more…]
When you have been injured on the job, you have a right to seek benefits through a workers’ compensation claim. Often, it can seem like an open and shut case, but there can be a number of reasons that your workers’ compensation claim is initiall… [Read more…]
With the advances in science, expectant parents can usually know in advance if a child will be born with serious birth defects. With that knowledge, many parents may choose to terminate the pregnancy, choosing adoption or surrogacy as an alterna… [Read more…]
In our last blog, we explained the basic requirements to qualify for workers’ compensation benefits in New Jersey—you must have suffered an injury and it must have been work-related. We also looked a couple of situations where there might be u… [Read more…]
In New Jersey, to qualify for workers’ compensation benefits, you must show two things: that you suffered an injury that keeps you from working or limits your ability to do your job; and that the injury was work-related, or sustained during the … [Read more…]
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) have been named as defendants in a lawsuit brought by the estate of Ryan Hoffman, who played college football for the North Carolina Tarheels in the 1990… [Read more…]
Two Ridgewood, New Jersey students have filed a lawsuit alleging bullying at Ridgewood High School during the past year. According to the complaint, one of the victims, identified in the lawsuit only as Bob Boe, had been subjected to bullying fo… [Read more…]