New Jersey Job Injury Lawyer

"Finis Origine Pendet", Roman Poet, Manilus
Translation  -- The end depends on the beginning

     Need a New Jersey job injury lawyer? Have you been injured on the job, or a job-related occupational disease?

     New Jersey workers' compensation law defines an injury as job-related if it arises out of or in the course of employment. The employee is required to give adequate and timely notice of the injury to the employer. Upon proper notice, the employee may be entitled to statutory benefits including temporary wage and medical benefits pending the outcome of the case. After proper treatment is provided, a determination will be made whether the employee has suffered any permanent disability. A percentage of disability is usually assigned to the case which translates into a dollar value based upon charts published yearly by the New Jersey Division of Workers' Compensation. 

     New Jersey law prohibits employers from retaliating against employees for asserting rights to compensation for job-related injuries.

     If you are injured on the job, do not forget your permanency benefit. 

     In addition to wage and medical benefits, New Jersey law on Workers’ Compensation provides for an award of permanent disability.  If the worker is not totally disabled, a chart is used to provide the applicable award based upon a percentage of either a “scheduled” loss or an “unscheduled” loss which is applicable for the year the worker sustained the injury. (See 2007 Schedule of Disabilities)  A “scheduled” loss is a injury to arms, hands, fingers, legs, toes, feet, eyes, ears or teeth.  A “non-scheduled’ loss is an injury to any area of the body or system not specifically listed in the schedule such as the back or heart.   These benefits are payable weekly are become due after the date temporary disability ends. 

     Permanency benefits reflect a permanent impairment based upon demonstrable objective medical evidence of a functional restriction of the body.  Objective medical evidence takes on different meaning for different types of injuries alleged but, in general, it is an independent professional opinion as opposed to the bare assertions of an injured worker regarding his or her physical and/or psychiatric condition.     An award of permanency will also reflect whether an injured worker has been left with an appreciable impairment of his or her ability to work or that the disability is otherwise significant. 

Related Links:

NJ Division of Workers' Compensation

NJ Compensation Rating & Inspection Bureau