Lawmakers Consider Work Comp Bills

New Jersey lawmakers are considering two workers’ compensation-related bills that would define the workday as that which begins in an employee parking lot and would permit injured workers under some conditions to be examined by their own physician. A. 6198, introduced Thursday and sent to the Assembly Labor Committee, would amend the state workers’ comp law to say that “whenever it shall appear that an employer is being prejudiced by virtue of the refusal of an injured employee to accept proffered medical and surgical treatment deemed necessary by the physician selected...