January 02, 2009 11:07 PM
Jon Gelman’s newly revised and updated treatise on Workers’ Compensation law has been published by West Group of Egan, MN. The expanded 3 volume hard bound set (2080 pages including forms) provides the most complete and current information available to help attorneys handle a broad range of claims and procedures in this changing field of law. Gelman’s third edition continues his tradition of over two decades of providing guidance for attorneys explaining how to handle minor claims to catastrophic injuries. The nationally recognized volumes are found in most law offices and legal libraries.
The books provide an explanation of COURTS, the newly implemented Division of Workers’ Compensation computer system. The volumes provide a new analysis of the elements of proof for emerging occupational exposures such as latex sensitivity and for established exposures such as asbestos and lead. They provide new chapters discussing claim investigations, medical investigations, the Second Injury Fund, liens and Social Security offsets.
Gelman’s books provide advice about medical privacy, ergonomics, Medicare reimbursement and other emerging areas. They provide assistance in intergrating workers’ compensation benefits with Social Security, Medicare, third party claims, disability plans and other collateral source benefits.
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Author and litigator Jon L. Gelman is the managing attorney of his Wayne, N.J., law practice which handles workers’ compensation, asbestos, products liability and personal injury cases for clients nationwide.He is vice president of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America’s (ATLA) Workplace Injury Litigation Group, a trustee of the Workplace Studies Institute and a sustaining member of the National Organization of Social Security Claimants Representatives. He is a member of the ATLA President’s Club. He is contributing columnist to the New Jersey Law Journal, has written more than 30 articles for legal journals and has taught class.
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Jay Causey, president of ATLA’s Workplace Injury Litigation Group, says: “Gelman’s comprehensive review of New Jersey workers’ comp law provides what is often missing from similar products—an excellent analysis of the relationship between workers’ comp and other disability and employment law remedies. Helpful comparisons are made to tort law, Social Security disability, the ADA, and New Jersey’s Family Protection Act.”
Gelman also offers a thorough analysis of new developments at the federal level which will be impacting state comp law, e.g., the development of OSHA’s ergonomic standards, and the increasingly divisive issue of medical records privacy in the workers’ comp arena. A first rate job.”
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