Legal news, analysis, and updates on workers' compensation and occupational injury law.
A unanimous New Jersey Supreme Court decided that firefighters, whether paid or volunteer, may receive Workers’ Compensation benefits for developing respiratory illness and lung disease as a result of exposure to asbestos, fumes and other toxic substances encountered on the job
List of common occupations that expose workers to asbestos products.
Workers' Compensation is remedial social legislation that was designed to provide benefits to workers for on-the-job injuries. Those benefits include temporary disability, medical treatment costs, and permanent disability benefits.
The current workers' compensation system faces soaring medical costs and an expanding perimeter of liability for bioterrorism.
The New Jersey Workers’ Compensation Act [WCA] provides for the awarding of benefits to those individuals who have contracted an illness as a result of their exposure to toxic substances at work.
Various Federal issues are challenging the existence of the state-based workers' compensation scheme in the United States.
The Social Security/Medicare program had its genesis in President Franklin Roosevelt's "New Deal" policies. During the succeeding Democratic administrations of Truman, Kennedy, and Johnson, it was developed into the "Great Society" approach, providing a social insurance program intended to operate n
The Federal Government continues to struggle with the need to share data from workers' compensation (WC) programs.
One of the most pressing challenges in the reformation of New Jersey's Workmen's Compensation system is in the area of occupational disease.
A historical review of knowledge leading up to the causal relationship between asbestos and disease.
Asbestos fibers are inhaled by workers and remain in the lungs, where they can cause disease.
"The Cold War Compensation Act" is the first federal workers' compensation program to be implemented in the last twenty years.
