Capehart Scatchard’s Workers’ Compensation Department has one of the largest workers’ compensation practices in the State of New Jersey with regular court lists in every venue of the State. Our compensation lawyers have established a fine reputation for aggressive claims handling. We regularly counsel clients, including our corporate clients, in the proper handling of work-related injuries prior to the inception of litigation. Should litigation become necessary, we have broad experience in litigating matters at the trial level as well as appeals before the Appellate Division and New Jersey Supreme Court.
As part of our client relations program, we regularly update our clients in workers’ compensation and ADA issues and other related matters with periodic newsletters and publications written by firm attorneys in these fields. We provide on-site seminars and legal updates on key decisions as well as access to our computer and research network.
REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS
Some of the Representative Matters We Have Handled Are:
- Numerous multi-party second injury fund cases
- Numerous occupational plant-closing cases
- The leading case in psychiatric claims in New Jersey, Saunderlin v duPont in which Capehart Scatchard prevailed at the New Jersey Supreme Court level.
- Extensive experience in catastrophic claims, including cases involving paraplegia and quadriplegia where home modifications and accessible vans were required.
REPRESENTATIVE CLIENT LIST
Our workers’ compensation attorneys represent numerous and very diverse public and private entities including municipalities, boards of education, insurance carriers, third party administrators, and self-insured companies in the defense of workers’ compensation matters. Some of our representative clients include:
PRIVATE CORPORATIONS
- Atlantic Health System
- Bergen Regional Medical Center
- Costco
- E. I. duPont de Nemours & Co., Inc.
- ExxonMobil
- Holman Enterprises
- Lockheed Martin
- Marriott
- Meridian Health System
- National Freight
- Nordstrom
- St. Barnabas Health System
- Verizon
- Wal-Mart Stores
- Weyerhaeuser
INSURANCE COMPANIES AND THIRD PARTY ADMINISTRATORS
- Ace/Esis
- AIU Claim Services
- Berkley Risk Managers
- D&H Alternative Risk Solutions
- Gallagher Bassett
- Horizon
- Inservco Insurance Services
- Liberty Mutual Insurance Company
- PMA Insurance Company and Management Corporation
- Qualcare
- Scibal
- Sedgwick Claims Services
PUBLIC SECTOR
- 120 New Jersey school boards including Northeast Bergen School Pool, PIP Pool
- Mercer County
- New Brunswick Board of Education
- Numerous municipal Joint Insurance Funds
- Numerous New Jersey municipal authorities in Burlington, Camden, and Monmouth Counties.
- Rutgers University
FIRM EXPERIENCE AND HIGHLIGHTS
The Department boasts five lawyers who have been named Certified Workers’ Compensation Lawyers as designated by the New Jersey Supreme Court.
The Department has published a number of articles on various subjects listed below. Also, the Department features Geaney’s New Jersey Workers’ Compensation Manual for Practitioners, Adjusters, and Employers.
