Friday, June 20, 2008

Florida’s “Circle Solution” Revisited: NJ Struggles to Speed up the Benefit Highway

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After a major investigative report entitled “ Waiting in Pain ,” the Star Ledger, newspaper reflected delays and frustrations in the operati...
Monday, June 16, 2008

The Next Crisis in Comp: What Happens When the Funds Go Insolvent?

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Workers’ Compensation coverage is not immune from the economic realities of the market and injured workers again fail to lose big time as th...
Monday, June 9, 2008

NJ Assembly to Consider New Workers' Compensation Bills

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C O M M I T T E E N O T I C E TO: MEMBERS OF THE ASSEMBLY LABOR COMMITTEE FROM: ASSEMBLYMAN JOSEPH V. EGAN, CHAIRMAN SUBJECT: ...

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 ...
Saturday, June 7, 2008

Hispanic Workers Have High Death Rates

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The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has again reported higher death dates for Hispanic workers in the United States. Hispanic workers are...
Friday, June 6, 2008

Will New Jersey’s Injured Workers Continue to Silently Wait in Pain?

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The NJ legislature is bogged down in controversy over what direction to take in order to respond to the State’s injured workers. While propo...

CDC in Reviewing WCMSA Limits Review to One Life Expectancy Table

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Effective July 1, 2008 the Centers for Medicare and Medicad (CMS) will exclusively use the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Table 1 ( Life ...