Ocean County Workers' Compensation Law Blog

When the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain are damaged, dementia-like symptoms usually occur. This is known as a frontotemporal disorders, which can have a drastic impact on a person's life and abilities. If you or someone you love experienced a brain injury in these areas of the brain, understanding the subsequent effects is crucial to get the proper medical assistance. 

While Alzheimer's and other dementia disorders are most common in the elderly, frontotemporal disorders most often impact people between the ages of 45 and 64. Symptoms include problems communicating, difficulty managing emotions, problems with movement, strange behavior, and an inability to hold gainful employment. As a result, a person with this disorder may no longer be able to drive or care for himself properly. In this case, the individual might require in-home care or need to be placed in a nursing facility so that his needs are sufficiently met.

Will contests can be a sensitive subject given that that most in Ocean County likely assume that they are simply motivated by your dissatisfaction over your interests in estate. What is lost in this assumption is the fact that there are indeed cases where people exercise undue influence in order to benefit themselves when it comes to an estate plan. Those who come to us here at Silvi, Fedele & Honschke Attorneys at Law LLC typically want to know in such situations how they prove can undue influence. If you share the same question, then it is important that you understand the implications that come with making such an accusation. 

New Jersey State Supreme Court rulings have placed the burden of proof on you to demonstrate (through evidence) that one convinced your family member or friend to amend their will in a way that your loved one might have not otherwise without such influence. Proving undue influence usually requires showing that the person being accused did not have an equal relationship with your loved one, but rather one of authority that exercised a certain degree of control over them (such as that of an attorney or caregiver). 

News of a wrongful death lawsuit being filed in Ocean County may be met with skepticism in the eyes of some. The belief may be that the family or friends of those who died are simply trying to profit off their deaths. In reality, nothing could typically be further away from the truth. The motivations of those seeking action following the wrongful death of a loved one may vary (yet typically do not include any degree of opportunism). Some may need to try and replace the financial support that the decedent provided them. In other cases, people may simply be looking to compensate for the emotional void that one's death left in their lives. 

Then there may be instances where the family of one who died due to the actions of another simply want a degree of accountability assigned to the responsible parties. Such was the aim of the family of a Florida man who was brutally murdered in 2012. A jury recently awarded them $700 million in a wrongful death lawsuit filed against his killers. Yet both of the men who killed him are currently serving life sentences, and are thus unable to pay anything towards the reward. Yet a representative of the family said they knew this going into their proceedings, and that there actions where simply another way of seeking justice for their loved one. 

In New Jersey, the governor recently signed a new bill that will improve things for certain emergency first responders injured on the job. The bill reforms the state's existing workers' compensation laws.

The bill, A4882, will provide eligible workers with disability retirement benefits for participating in rescue and recovery efforts related to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. It will also extend the statute of limitations.