New Workers' Comp Judge Appointed - But Second Injury Fund lists Shrink
Tuesday, March 10, 2009 Filed in: Workers
Compensation| New Jersey
Deputy Attorney General Dolores McNamee, longtime
Second Injury Fund Attorney, was elevated to the
bench in January 2009. Judge McNamee now
presides over lists in New Brunswick (two week out of
the cycle) and Camden (one week of the cycle).
This leaves the already overwhelmed ranks of the Deputy Attorney general with just four Deputies assigned to the whole state! Accordingly, Administrative Supervisory Judge Dietrich has cancelled eight (8) Second Injury Funds lists and re-assigned those pending cases to already extant Deputies/Judges.
Because of the state hiring freeze (due to New Jersey's expected $4B budget shortfall), the Second Injury Fund is not able to hire any new Deputies to assist the Fund.
This leaves the already overwhelmed ranks of the Deputy Attorney general with just four Deputies assigned to the whole state! Accordingly, Administrative Supervisory Judge Dietrich has cancelled eight (8) Second Injury Funds lists and re-assigned those pending cases to already extant Deputies/Judges.
Because of the state hiring freeze (due to New Jersey's expected $4B budget shortfall), the Second Injury Fund is not able to hire any new Deputies to assist the Fund.
This means we can expect that already overtaxed Second Injury Fund lists to grow in size and for adjournment of "recently" filed cases to be more likely.
Tompkins McGuire continues to maintain Second Injury Fund lists in every vicinage. We are pleased to report that none of Tompkins' Second Injury Fund lists are being cancelled or re-assigned.
