Publications
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Law360 Publishes Buchalski and Heck on Workers’ Compensation Claims on Federal Lands
Law360
April 26, 2022
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Workers’ Compensation Liability & COVID-19: A Comparative Law Review
September 24, 2020
Wilson Elser attorneys present the current statutory framework, recent changes to the law in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic. -
NJ Law Expands Access to Workers’ Comp Benefits for Essential Employees Infected with COVID-19
NJ Expands Access to Workers’ Comp Benefits for Essential Employees Infected with COVID-19
September 16, 2020
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed into law a bill that significantly upends the handling of infectious disease claims in New Jersey’s workers’ compensation system. The rebuttable nature of the presumption of causation is largely illusory in that it requires an employer to prove that the employee was not exposed at work. -
NJ Legislature Creates Rebuttable Presumption Essential Workers Contracted COVID-19 in the Course of Employment
NJ Rebuttable Presumption Essential Workers Contracted COVID-19 at Employment
August 10, 2020
New Jersey Senate Bill 2380 expands access to workers’ compensation benefits for workers infected with COVID-19. As amended, it creates a rebuttable presumption of compensability for a broad set of COVID-19-positive workers qualifying as “essential employees” in New Jersey so long as infected individuals worked somewhere other than their own residence at the time of infection.
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The Hub: Transportation News & Insights
Quarterly Digest from Wilson Elser’s Transportation Practice
April 2019