For the first time in New Jersey, a court has assessed attorneys’ fees to sanction a workers’ compensation insurer that tried to use covert video surveillance and other subterfuge to terminate benefits.
The Appellate Division, in Maher v. Johnson & Johnson, A-256-00, on Feb. 27 affirmed an award of $50,800 in attorneys’ fees and $3,359 in costs to a 61-year-old former worker who the carrier claimed was faking her disability.
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