New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy on Monday signed a bill to provide supplemental benefit payments to the dependents of essential employees who died from COVID-19 in the course of employment.
Murphy enacted Senate Bill 2476, by Sen. Troy Singleton, D-Moorestown, which also provides a cost-of-living adjustment to workers’ compensation death benefits for dependents of essential workers who died from the disease.
The bill applies to benefits paid for all deaths that occurred after March 1, 2020. The measure defines essential employees to include public safety workers and first responders, h...
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