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Northeastern Cities Have the Most Car Accidents

A recent story in USA Today by Dovie Rice concluded that it should not come as a surprise to Americans that the most hazardous and potentially deadly thing you do every day is to drive your car. Mr. Rice compiled statistics and information from a number of sources to substantiate his conclusion. The bad news is that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has found that there is almost one motor vehicle accident every 10 seconds in the United States. The good news is that only about 25{9c067c25ed205f086ce6001901eb13dfadc688a7aefab9f64e0c55b8c5a55872} of these collisions result in injury, and only about 1{9c067c25ed205f086ce6001901eb13dfadc688a7aefab9f64e0c55b8c5a55872} resulted in death. While that statistic may seem comforting, if you do the math you realize that approximately 30,000 deaths occur on our nation’s highways every year, and motor vehicle …

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What Happens if you Sustain Emotional Trauma from a Robbery or Attack at Work in New Jersey?

Are you still covered by New Jersey workers’ compensation benefits? The answer in New Jersey is generally “YES.” The workers’ compensation law in New Jersey is much more lenient on these types of issues than in our neighboring state of Pennsylvania. In a recently publicized workers’ compensation case in Pennsylvania, a manager of a liquor store was robbed by a masked man who put a gun to his head and duct taped him to a chair during a robbery. The worker experienced post traumatic stress disorder as a result of this robbery, but was originally denied workers’ compensation benefits by Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court because his employer’s workers’ compensation carrier argued that robberies are a “normal working condition” that do not require the carrier to pay benefits. …