Victimizing Undocumented Injured Workers

NY TIMES QUOTATION OF THE DAY

"I was shot by terrorists, and it feels like the people I worked with are 
victimizing me all over again."

VALERIE KALLIS-WEBER, 59, a victim of a mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., last year, on medical treatments that have been denied or delayed under the workers' compensation system that covers her care.

Click here to read the entire article, "‘Victimizing Me All Over Again’: San Bernardino Victims Fight for Treatment" NY Times 11.30.2016

In New Jersey, "...without benefit of a legislative directive to the contrary, undocumented aliens are entitled to workers' compensation benefits. While undocumented aliens are not performing any illegal work, the court has reasoned that the New Jersey Workers' Compensation Act is not subject to any prohibitions similar to the unemployment law of each state which must comply with Federal standards; granting unemployment benefits to undocumented aliens would violate these standards."
Montoya v. Gateway Ins. Co., 168 N.J.Super. 100, 401 A.2d 1102 (App.Div.1979), certif. den. 81 N.J. 402, 408 A.2d 796 (1979). "The need for medical treatment is not a benefit derived from immigration status but rather from employment status. Mendoza v. Monmouth Recycling Corporation, 288 N.J.Super. 240, 672 A.2d 221 (App.Div.1996)." Gelman, Jon L., 38 N.J. Prac., Workers' Compensation Law § 11.8 (3d ed.).

Jon L. Gelman of Wayne NJ is the author of NJ Workers’ Compensation Law (West-Thomson-Reuters) and co-author of the national treatise, Modern Workers’ Compensation Law (West-Thomson-Reuters). 

For over 4 decades the
Law Offices of Jon L Gelman  1.973.696.7900  jon@gelmans.com  has been representing injured workers and their families who have suffered occupational accidents and illnesses.

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