Prudence M. Higbee
Shareholder, Workers' Compensation Department . Focuses her practice in the representation of employers, self-insured companies, and insurance carriers in workers' compensation defense matters.
Areas of Practice
- Workers' Compensation Defense
- Workers' Compensation Law
Bar Admissions
- New Jersey
- Pennsylvania
Education
- Widener University School of Law, Wilmington, Delaware - May, 1999
- Law Journal: Widener Law Symposium Journal
- Rowan College of New Jersey, Glassboro, New Jersey
- B.A., Bachelor of Arts - 1996
- Major: Political Science
Published Works
- Unresolved Issues: HIPAA and Workers' Compensation, NYCOM, Across The Table, May/June, 2003
Classes/Seminars
- Jeopardy and Recent Cases You Should Know About New Jersey Comp, in-house First Cardinal, LLC, 2011
- Case and Statute Overview for Comp Professionals and Fraud, in-house Whole Foods Market, 2011
- Fraud, in-house for Scibal Associates, 2010
- Key Court Decisions You Need To Know From 2009-2010," "Properly Calculating Awards Under The New Jersey Statute," and "The Right To Control Treatment And Termination Of Benefits, in-house First Cardinal, LLC , 2010
- Case And Statute Overview For Claims Professionals, Millennium, Seminars, LLC, 2010
- A Good Workers' Compensation Program Is No Accident, New Jersey Associations of Counties, 2010
- Properly Calculating Awards Under The New Jersey Statute, Basic Compensability Issues, and Section 40 Liens, in-house seminar to client, CCMSI, 2010
- New Jersey Comp Fundamentals: Statutes and Strategies You Must Know, Case Law Update, and Deciphering the Mystery of the New Jersey Rate Chart, First Cardinal, 2009
- New Jersey Comp Fundamentals: Statutes and Strategies You Must Know, in-house presentation to Costco, 2009
- Everything You Never Understood About Workers' Compensation Liens: Subrogation Made Simple, in-house presentation to client, Inservco Insurance Services, Inc., 2008
- Workers' Compensation Update, in-house presentation to client, ACE USA, 2008
- Basic Workers' Compensation in New Jersey, Lorman Education Services, 2005
- Compliance with Medicare Secondary Payer Statute, Scibal Associates/Advantage Corp., 2005
- HIPAA Privacy Regulations and Worker's Compensation In New Jersey, Lorman Education Services, 2004
- New Jersey Workers' Comp Update 2003, Council on Education in Management, 2003
- Overview of the New Jersey Workers' Compensation Act, Council on Education in Management, 2002
- The Fundamentals of Workers' Comp in New Jersey - A Comprehensive A to Z Guide to Workers' Comp Management and Compliance in New Jersey, Council on Education in Management, 2001
- New Jersey Recent Development Update: Recent Developments in Workers' Comp: How the Latest Legislation and Judicial Decisions in New Jersey Impact Your Business, Workers' Comp, 2001
- New Jersey Recent Development Update: Recent Developments in Workers' Comp: How the Latest Legislation and Judicial Decisions in New Jersey Impact Your Business, Council on Education in Management, 2001
Honors and Awards
- Named a Super Lawyer as voted by her peers and facilitated by Law & Politics and New Jersey Monthly
- Named a New Jersey Super Lawyer Rising Star as voted by her peers and facilitated by Law & Politics and New Jersey Monthly
- Phi Delta Phi, Alumni, Harrington Inn Honors Chapter
Professional Associations and Memberships
- American Bar Association, Member
- Burlington County Bar Association, Member
- Gloucester County Bar Association, Member
- New Jersey State Bar Association, Workers' Compensation Division
Past Employment Positions
- Honorable Samuel G. DeSimone, former Assignment Judge of Vicinage 15, Judicial Clerk
