Showing posts with label dependents. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dependents. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 2, 2021

Supplement Benefit Bill for Surviving Dependents of Essential Coronavirus Workers Passed by NJ Legislature

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The NJ Legislature has now passed S2476 . It provides supplemental benefit payments to the dependents of essential employees who died in the...
Monday, December 30, 2019

Dependents of NJ Public Safety Workers May Receive Supplemental Benefits

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A new benefit program, providing additional workers’ compensation benefits for some dependents of public safety workers, goes into effect o...
Thursday, June 20, 2019

New COLA Increase for Certain Dependents

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NJ Governor Phil Murphy has now signed legislation enacting a  cost of living adjustment [COLA] increase for workers' compensation bene...
Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Advocates Lobby to Eliminate the Death Penalty in Workers' Compensation

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Compensating dependents in the workers' compensation has always been problematic. The issue is that the system just can't make compl...
Monday, April 20, 2009

Court Awards Dependency Benefits to Police Officer Who Committed Suicide

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The dependents of a deceased police officer will receive benefits as a result of the officer's work-related suicide related to stress. W...
Monday, June 9, 2008

The NJ Supreme Court Declares Dependency Benefit Increases are Not to Be Retroactively Applied

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The NJ Supreme Court reversed a ruling of the Appellate Division and declared the Legislature’s 2004 amendment to the workers’ compensation ...
Tuesday, October 2, 2007

NJ Beneficiaries Wait for Supplemental Increase in Workers’ Compensation Benefits

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For almost 2 years New Jersey’s most severely injured and their families have been waiting for the legislature to act upon a law to provide ...