Workers’ Comp Rates Are On The Rise Again In New Jersey

After a year in 2011 in which workers’ compensation rates actually declined for the first time in decades, the new rates in 2012 have renewed the steady ascent which commenced in 1980. The Workers’ Compensation rates effective January 1, 2012 are: Maximum for temporary disability an...

Calling In “Sick” Is Not Enough To Invoke The FMLA

Employers are somewhat behind the eight ball in the FMLA because the employee need not specifically invoke the "FMLA" in order to obtain protection under the law. Nor does the employee have to give detailed information about health; rather, the employer has to consider whether the FML...

Capehart Scatchard Lawyers Recognized As Super Lawyers – 3

News Release Capehart Scatchard Lawyers Recognized As Super Lawyers Mt. Laurel, NJ - - Capehart Scatchard is pleased to announce that the following shareholders have recently been named “Super Lawyers” as voted by their peers and facilitated by Law & Politics and New Jersey...

Capehart Scatchard Lawyers Recognized As Super Lawyers

News Release Capehart Scatchard Lawyers Recognized As Super Lawyers Mt. Laurel, NJ - - Capehart Scatchard is pleased to announce that the following shareholders have recently been named “Super Lawyers” as voted by their peers and facilitated by Law & Politics and New Jersey...

New Jersey Rules Per Quod Claims Are Not Lienable

Newsletter New Jersey Rules Per Quod Claims Are Not Lienable In an important decision affecting the rights of employers in New Jersey, the Appellate Division ruled that a per quod claim is not lienable in Weir v. Market Transition Facility, 318 N.J.Super. 427 (App.Div. 1999). Before...

Lender Beware: Unrecorded Vendee Liens Threaten Loan Priority

Article Lender Beware: Unrecorded Vendee Liens Threaten Loan Priority by Jeffrey Alan Grabowski , Esq. In today's fast-paced world, where computers can produce loan commitment letters and mortgage documents within hours, and where fax machines eject the borrower's comments and r...

Estate Administration

What happens after a family member has died? Hopefully, the decedent will have left funeral instructions. If not, New Jersey statute indicates that the next of kin is the person with authority to make funeral and burial arrangements. If the next of kin is not also the executor, this...
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