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03/08/21 National Workers Compensation Defense Network (NWCDN) We all know certain events are going to happen every year: Alabama is going to play for the national football championship, your property taxes will certainly rise, Tom Brady will be in the Super Bowl, and most likely of all someone is going to challenge the way Section 40 liens are calculated in New Jersey. This year the lien challenge has already occurred in Panckeri v. Allentown Police Department, No. A-2015-19 (App. Div. March 2, 2021).Police Officer Daniel Panckeri was injured on April 15, 2012 rendering assistance at the scene of a motor vehicle accident. While attempting to stop one of the cars that was rolling into oncoming traffic, Panckeri suffered injuries to his left foot that resulted in an award of thirty three and one third percent permanent disability. He reopened the case two years later and received an increase to forty percent of the foot. Panckeri also settled a third party suit for $99 ....
02/22/21 National Workers Compensation Defense Network (NWCDN) In 1979 the New Jersey legislature adopted a change to N.J.S.A. 34:15-7 to add that recreational and social activities are not compensable unless the injured worker could prove that the activity promoted a benefit to the employer beyond improvement of health and morale. Prior Supreme Court cases have already made clear that if an employer compels attendance at a social or recreational event, then an injury during a social or recreational activity will be found to be compensable. But it has taken over 40 years for a case to get to the Supreme Court which defines what constitutes a social and recreational activity in the first place, and what sort of activities satisfy the standard of proof of a benefit beyond improvement of health and morale. Last weeks Supreme Court decision in Goulding v. NJ Friendship House, Inc., (A-48-19) provides very helpful answers.The key facts are simple. Goulding was an employee of ....
01/29/21 National Workers Compensation Defense Network (NWCDN) Employers need to be aware of an Assembly bill that would turn the workers compensation statute into an employment protection law. The Assembly Labor Committee recently passed A-2617 sponsored by Assembly members Murphy, Benson, and Reynolds-Jackson. The bill will require an employer with at least 50 employees to provide a hiring preference to an injured employee who has reached maximal medical improvement, is unable to return to his or her former position, but can perform the essential duties of an existing, unfilled position.This bill is problematic for employers for many reasons: first, it attempts to turn a statutory benefits law the New Jersey Workers Compensation Act into an employment protection statute. Second, there are already labor laws in New Jersey that protect employees, such as the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination and the ADA. Third, there is no explanation of the circumstances i ....