Audit of NJ Division of Risk Management Reveals Deficiencies

A recent audit highlights deficiencies in the handling of workers’ compensation claims of NJ State employees. The State of New Jersey is self-insured for workers’ compensation claims and they are managed by the Department of Treasury Division of Risk Management.

Tacking Health Care Costs Onto California Farm Produce

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Farm labor contractors across California, the nation’s biggest agricultural engine, are increasingly nervous about a provision of the Affordable Care Act that will require hundreds of thousands of field workers to be covered by health insurance.

While the requirement was recently delayed until 2015, the contractors, who provide farmers with armies of field workers, say they are already preparing for the potential cost the law will add to their business, which typically operates on a slender profit margin.

“I’ve been to at least a dozen seminars on the Affordable Care Act since February,” said Chuck Herrin, owner of Sunrise Farm Labor, a contractor based here. “If you don’t take the right approach, you’re wiped out.”

State Colleges Seek to Privatize Workers' Compensation Coverage

NJ State colleges and universities want to opt out of the costly NJ State claims network and are seeking to establish a joint fund to cut costs. Yesterday S2067 advanced in he NJ Legislature and was transfered to the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee. 

Senate Bill No. 2067 of 2010 authorizes two or more State colleges or universities to form a State college risk management group and to participate in joint liability funds, risk management programs, and related services provided by the group, subject to certain regulatory oversight by the State Treasurer. Currently, the Division of Risk Management in the Department of the Treasury administers certain insurance coverage programs for various agencies of State government, including State colleges. This bill would modify that authority in order to allow State colleges to form their own risk management groups and joint liability funds to provide that coverage.

For over 3 decades the Law Offices of Jon L. Gelman 1.973.696.7900 jon@gelmans.com  have been representing injured workers and their families who have suffered occupational exposures.

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