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Award Affirmed For Mechanic With Longstanding Back Problem Found To Have Been Worsened By Twisting Motion

By on March 28, 2013 in Key Defenses, NJ Workers' Comp with 0 Comments

Edward Kovalcik worked as a maintenance mechanic at Capital Health-Fuld.  He was injured in February 2011 while repairing a door.  He said that he twisted to pick up a screw and injured his low back.  Dr. Lee Buono, a neurosurgeon at the hospital, came to the scene of the injury and observed Kovalcik writhing in […]

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Fourth Circuit Holds Pregnant UPS Employee With Lifting Restrictions Was Not Covered Under ADA When Company Prevented Her From Working With Lifting Restriction

Peggy Young worked for United Parcel Services (UPS) as a delivery truck driver.  She became pregnant in 2006 and was given a restriction from her doctor indicating that she should not lift more than 20 pounds for the first 20 twenty weeks of her pregnancy and no more than 10 pounds thereafter.  Later her midwife reiterated the 20 […]

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Employee Who Waited Too Long to Inform Employer of Injury Was Barred From Compensation

Few New Jersey workers’ compensation cases turn on the issue of notice under N.J.S.A. 34:15-17 simply because the New Jersey statute allows up to 90 days in most instances to report a traumatic injury.  The case of Ader v. Lebanon Township, A-0383-11T2 (App.Div.March 11, 2013) focused on this section of the law and whether there […]

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Does An Employer Owe Temp Benefits In New Jersey If The Employee Cannot Work One Job But Is Still Working Another?

Clients ask about the following scenario frequently: Bob injures his low back working for Company A on January 1, 2013, arising out of and in the course of employment.  He earns $400 per week working 20 hours per week.  Company A pays temp benefits at $280 per week, and the authorized doctor indicates that Bob […]

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