Jon Gelman's newly revised and updated treatise on Workers' Compensation Law 2026 has been published by Thomson Reuters of Eagan, MN. This marks the 40th annual supplement to the New Jersey Practice Series on Workers' Compensation Law. The treatise is the most comprehensive, research-integrated work, on Workers' Compensation law, and is fully integrated with Westlaw.
The treatise offers an in-depth and insightful analysis that provides quick and accurate guidance to those who practice workplace injury law. Time-saving comments and instructions shorten the claims process and expedite the handling of issues.
Updates include:
- New and expanded analysis comparing workers' compensation law and tort actions for intentional tort, negligence, gross negligence, and reckless employer conduct
- New sections on the exclusivity doctrine and its impact on intentional wrong civil actions, discrimination claims, and insurance policy limitations
- Medical-mental health services for first responders and coverage of NIOSH
- Federal government structural changes and their impact on access to resource information for claim investigations and medical research
- Essential worker case law interpreting the statutory language for the more liberal standard in COVID-19 infectious disease claims
- New procedural requirements for judicial recusal and termination applications
- NJ Supreme Court holding on counsel fee sharing by certified workers' compensation lawyers with out-of-state lawyers
- US Supreme Court's Loper Bright decision eliminating Chevron Deference and its impact on Medicare Secondary Payment reimbursement and workers' compensation Medicare set-aside agreements
- Updated case law, statutes, and regulations on the compensability of work-related accidents and injuries
- Workers' compensation disability rate charts and NJ public employee pension offset tables
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Gelman on Workers' Compensation Law is exclusively integrated into the worldwide leading legal research network of Thomson Reuters® publications.
Now Available on PROVIEW™ as an eBOOK Edition. Workers' Compensation Law, 3rd Ed (Vol. 38-39A, NJ Practice Series) is available conveniently on your mobile device as a ProView eBook. It is also available in print and online via Westlaw™ and WestlawNext™. [Westlaw Database Identifier NJPRAC]
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Jon L. Gelman is nationally recognized as an author, lecturer, and skilled trial attorney in workers' compensation law and occupational/environmental disease litigation. Over a career spanning five decades, he has been involved in complex litigation on behalf of thousands of clients challenging the mega-industries of asbestos, tobacco, and lead paint. Gelman is the author of NJ Workers' Compensation Law (Thomson Reuters®) and co-author of the national treatise, Modern Workers' Compensation Law (Thomson Reuters®). He is the former Vice-President of The Workers Injury Law & Advocacy Group (WILG), a charter member of The College of Workers' Compensation Lawyers, and a former member of the National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI).
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