The U.S. Department of Labor has entered into a settlement agreement with a New Jersey building contractor who allowed their subcontractors...

Aluminum Shapes LLC will affirm a $1 million penalty and accept 10 willful, 15 repeat and 55 serious violations and one other-than-serious c...

As New Jersey continues to make progress in the fight against COVID-19 and with state metrics continuing to trend in the right direction, Go...

Governor Phil Murphy today signed Executive Order No. 231. The Order extends the Public Health Emergency that was declared on March 9, 2020 ...

The tension between public pension systems and workers' compensation programs was highlighted in a recent investigative report by the NJ...

NJ Governor Pat Murphy has signed into law new Legislation that expands employee benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Celebrating Labor Day in 1953. In September 1953, the NJ Division of Workers' Compensation [DWC] opened new offices at 35 Church St...

The NJ Senate adopted legislation ( S.1967 ) to increase supplemental benefits to certain injured workers receiving workers' compensati...

The New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development and the U.S Department of Labor pledged a historic new level of cooperation ...

The NJ Division of Workers’ Compensation has now mandated the reporting of pending workers’ compensation claims possibly eligible for reimb...

Standing outside a Claire’s Store in Sea Girt, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) called on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to i...

NJ Governor Phil Murphy today signed an Executive Order directing the New Jersey Department of Health and the Board of Medical Examiners to...

NJ Governor Chris Christie filed the following nominations with the State Senate. The Governor’s nominations are subject to the advice and c...

Hon. Russell Wojtenko, Jr. Director and Chief Judge of Compensation has issued the following Memo on July 7, 2016: "I am happy to anno...

The NJ Senate passed an historic legislative proposal that will change the way benefits are delivered in work related injuries in NJ. S2447...

Concrete and masonry company Concrete Systems Inc. has been cited for one repeat and seven serious safety hazards following a February inves...

Jon Gelman’s newly revised and updated treatise on Workers’ Compensation Law has just been published by West Group of Egan, MN. The treati...

A NJ Workers' Compensation Judge has held that turning over in bed did not constitute an intervening superseding event and therefore t...

NJ Governor Chris Christie has vetoed legislation that would would have created a presumption that of compensability for first responders w...

Senator Frank Lautenberg passed away this week and his legacy of helping the workers will live on for generations. "The boy Paterson,...