John H. Geaney, Esq. publishes a yearly manual aimed on providing practitioners, adjusters and employers with key information on Workers’ Compensation in the State of New Jersey. The 2017 Manual is a compilation of prior editions with particular emphasis on cases decided in 2015-2016 as well as the addition of two new chapters and 60 new pages of text, including the addition of important chapters for practitioners of workers’ compensation.
- New Chapter Eight on “Issues Pertaining to Personal Weakness Causing Falls, the Idiopathic Defense, and the Requirement of ‘Arising out of Employment’”
- New Chapter Nine on “Medical Causation Versus Legal Causation”
- Revised Medicare Chapter on new CRC/BCRC procedures
- Expanded discussion of subrogation post-Dever and discussion of comp and PIP statutes
- Expanded analysis on independent contractor issues
- Expanded analysis on injuries in parking lots and lobbies
- Expanded analysis on proofs on “usual and customary” fees in medical provider claims
- Expanded analysis of assaults in the workplace
- Estate of Kotsovska v. Liebman (jurisdiction in workers’ comp and independent contractor status)
- Amedeo v. United Parcel Service (rules for motions for med and temp benefits)
- Lambert v. Travelers (rights of subrogation as to medical benefits payable under PIP)
- Catrambone v. Ballys (reopening an award after a total disability award)
- Lucciola v. Home Depot (calculating social security disability offset rate)
- Elhelou v. CVS Pharmacy (rights of employer to sue to collect lien after one year)
- Katzenstein v. Dollar General (terminating temp after firing while on light duty)
- Puleo v. Middlesex County Consumer Affairs (occupational statute of limitations)
- Loeber v. Fair Lawn BOE (right of employee to obtain home additions in catastrophic claims)
- Todaro v. Gloucester County (discovery rights to family doctor records)
- Roman v. Treeminator Tree Services (misrepresentation by LLC employer in obtaining coverage)
- Dunkley v. Costco Wholesale Corp (reconstructed wages)