If you have been injured at work and filed a workers’ compensation claim, you may be requested to undergo a medical examination by a doctor different from your regular treating physician. This is most commonly referred to as an independent medical examination (IME), and usually comes at the request of your employer’s insurance company. An …

Suffering an injury and/or being in some kind of accident can be an overwhelming and emotional experience. The moment itself could go by in a flash. One moment you might be on your way to the grocery store and the next you’re flipped over on the side of the road after another vehicle t-boned you …

Workers’ compensation is meant to help employees injured on the job or while performing work activities. If you put in a claim and it is accepted, you will receive benefits like medical treatment and compensation for a portion of lost wages. Its sounds like a pretty good deal, but that is only when your claim …

Although the term “pain and suffering†is widely popular, the majority of people may not fully understand the implication of the term in regards to personal injury lawsuits. Pain and suffering is divided into two distinct types including mental pain and suffering and physical pain and suffering. In the case of mental pain and suffering, …

In order to determine whether or not you may be eligible for lasting disability benefits from the workers’ compensation insurance company used by your employer, you must first determine if a work related injury has caused a permanent impairment that restricts your ability to do your job properly. You may decide to simply accept the …

There are many reasons a person may need access to their medical records such as certain types of lawsuits like personal injury and accident cases. Your medical records can play a critical role in cases such as these in order to prove that the other party indeed was responsible for your injuries and therefore your …

When workers get injured and can no longer carry out their duties, they depend upon workers’ compensation to pay for any possible lost wages and certain medical coverage. Although your employer may claim that you are covered, it is possible for that coverage to exclude certain circumstances, which is why it is critically important that …

Authorities received a phone call about a collision on Tuckerton Road and Lenape Trail on the afternoon of July 16 with reports of multiple injuries. New Jersey’s JCC Summer Day Camp Students Injured in Bus Crash Emergency personnel from several local agencies assisted in helping the students in the scary moments after the car accident. …

It is common that a large number of medical malpractice lawsuits originate directly from a misdiagnosis, delayed diagnosis, injury, or illness. Further complications such as delayed or incorrect treatment, or even no treatment at all can be a direct result of a doctors misdiagnosis and can cause a patient’s condition to deteriorate rapidly, possibly resulting …

Many times, construction sites can be very dangerous places for both pedestrians as well as the individual construction workers employed at the site. It is also very common for people to think of someone falling from a height when hearing about construction site injuries when in fact, some of the most critical construction site injuries …