Court Admonishes Lawyers in Case That Highlights Medical Fee Dispute Issues

Score one for the workers' compensation judges of the world. That's the feeling among some New Jersey attorneys after an appeals court admonished two lawyers for stooping to “pejorative attacks” on comp judges in a case that highlights a number of burning issues in medical fee and inter-jurisdictional disputes in the Garden State. “I haven't seen many statements by a court as strong as this one,” said Jon Gelman, a Wayne, New Jersey, claimants' attorney and frequent blogger. “I would say this has elevated the status of workers' compensation j...