The facts of Safet Saiti v. Garden Homes, A-1328-20, decided October 11, 2022, are simple. On September 3, 2020 an Order for permanency was entered in favor of petitioner. For reasons unknown, payment was not…
On October 28, 2022, the Appellate Division issued its decision in Robert Alam v. Ameribuilt Contractors, A-2114-21, approved for publication that same day. We congratulate the Workers’ Compensation team here at Brown & Connery which…
On June 1, 2022 the Appellate Division decided the case of Lindell v. W.H. Industries, Inc., A-1815-20. This decision affirmed the dismissal with prejudice of three separate Claim Petitions filed by petitioner for incidents of…
On Thursday, February 10, 2022, Congress approved legislation that bars the use of forced arbitration to address sexual harassment and abuse claims in the workplace, entitled Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment…
The unreported Appellate decision in Townsend v. New Transit, A-0559-20, decided February 2, 2022, should now be required reading for all pro se litigants. Claude Townsend, a bus driver for New Jersey Transit, was involved…
On January 13, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court reached split decisions on vaccine mandates issued by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”), respectively. Here are…
On May 11, 2020, as a response to the “original” COVID pandemic New Jersey enacted a COVID presumption statute which created a rebuttable presumption that “essential employees” who contracted COVID19 did so as the result…
New Jersey employers will now be subject to yet another expansion of the definition of compensable employment with the Approval of Senate Bill S771 on January 10, 2022. This bill amends Section 36 of the…
A Workers Compensation judge’s dismissal of a claim by a salesman injured in a motor vehicle accident was affirmed by the Appellate Division in a ruling that held a side trip to a favorite restaurant…
A Union County mail carrier who certified she had no outside employment while collecting federal benefits for a foot injury was charged with one count of fraud by the U.S. Attorney’s office for the District…