News Release

Workers' Compensation Shareholder Addresses SEAK Attendees

Mt. Laurel, NJ - - Capehart Scatchard executive committee member, John H. Geaney, Esq. spoke on July 21, 2009 at the SEAK's 29^th Annual Workers' Compensation and Occupational Medicine Conference in Hyannis, Massachusetts.

In his presentation, Mr. Geaney spoke on life after the Americans with Disabilities Amendments Act of 2008. He addressed the fact that coverage of disabilities has been widely expanded under the ADA and emphasized that employers need to engage in the interactive process in addressing reasonable accommodation issues. Mr. Geaney also stressed that employers must be careful to handle workers' compensation claims and return to work issues without generating disability discrimination claims.

A seasoned workers' compensation practitioner for over 26 years, Mr. Geaney, a Moorestown resident, is the author of Geaney's New Jersey Workers' Compensation Manual and A Guide to Employment Issues Under the ADA & FMLA distributed by the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education. Mr. Geaney concentrates his practice in the representation of employers in workers' compensation defense matters, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the Family and Medical Leave Act.