The Law Offices of Vallejos & Morales, P.C. welcomes you to its website. Our website has been designed to help potential and current clients understand the areas of law in which we practice. Moreover, it can be used as a useful guide to simplify the legal process in your particular situation. Our office is dedicated to answering all of your questions, addressing your concerns, legal advisor services, discussing with you the various options available to you, and achieving the very best possible result the law allows.

We provide personal attention to you without delegation to an associate or colleague so that we become knowledgeable about your particular circumstances. We further work hard to ensure you receive value, which is the best guarantee of your continued patronage.

We have two office locations to better serve our clients in Legal services in New Jersey, USA.

Achievements

	December 2006
	The Law Offices of Vallejos & Morales, P.C. incorporates with the State of New Jersey.

	March 2007
	Vallejos & Morales, P.C. opens its first office in Hoboken, New Jersey. Andrew B. Vallejos, a former Prosecutor with the City of Newark, joins Peter J. Morales, a former Associate with the Law Firm of Nemergut & Duff and former Law Clerk to the Honorable Jamie D. Happas, J.S.C. to form the firm. Both attorneys are graduates from Rutgers University, School of Law - Camden. The firm's primary areas of practice are Divorce (Family Law), Worker's Compensation, Personal Injury, Real Estate and Immigration.

	August 2007
	The firm expands its areas of practice to include Bankruptcy, Social Security Disability, Discrimination, Expungements, Adoptions, Business Formation, Name Changes, Wills and Estates.

	January 2010
	Law Offices of Vallejos & Morales, P.C. opens an office in Hightstown, New Jersey catering to its South Jersey clients. The office location is 200 Mercer Street, Suite D, Highstown, New Jersey 08520 (609) 371-3600.

	February 2010
	Law Offices of Vallejos & Morales, P.C. opens another office in Elizabeth, New Jersey (Union County). The office location is 1139 East Jersey Street, Suite 208, Elizabeth, New Jersey 07201 (908) 351-8700.

	March 2010
	Andrew B. Vallejos, Esq. returns as part-time Municipal Court Prosecutor with the City of Newark.

Workers compensation laws in New Jersey

New Jersey law provides that each employer in the State of New Jersey must carry worker's compensation insurance to cover any and all injuries sustained by employees arising out of the course of their employment.

To that end, if you are ever injured at work, regardless of whether it was your own fault or the negligence of another, it is important to notify your supervisor and demand medical treatment through your employer’s worker’s compensation insurance carrier. Do not seek treatment through your private or company health insurance provider if your injury occurred at work. You must notify your employer and your employer must provide medical treatment through its worker’s compensation insurance.

If you are seriously injured at work and it is determined that you cannot return to work in the foreseeable future, in addition to providing you with medical benefits, your employer’s workers compensation insurance carrier must pay you temporary worker’s compensation wages which is typically 70% of your weekly wages.

All employees injured at work are entitled to these benefits provided they meet the “notice requirement.” Notify your employer or supervisor as soon as practically possible following the accident. Our office recommends that even if you feel like your injury is not serious and/or you believe that you will feel better the next day , you should still notify your employer and/or supervisor. If the pain you experience worsens overnight or over the course of the next few days, if you had already given “notice,” your medical treatment will be covered under worker’s compensation. If the pain subsides overnight and you feel like you do not need medical treatment, you do not need to take any further action.

In addition to filing a claim, all employees injured at work are entitled to file a “Claim Petition” in which your employer’s worker’s compensation carrier may be liable for a “Permanent Disability Award.”

Following any authorized worker’s compensation medical treatment, an employee who files a “Claim Petition” (known as a Petitioner), undergoes Permanency Examination to determine the extent of permanent disability to the area of the body injured at work. Depending on the Permanency Reports and/or testimony of the physicians performing those examinations, you will be compensated in addition to the temporary benefits already received. You can get the advice for Workers compensation laws in New Jersey, workers compensation laws, workers compensation laws in New Jersey USA by Vallejos & Morales.

Our attorneys are experienced worker’s compensation attorneys ready to handle your claim and ensure that you get top dollar for your work related injuries. We do not get paid unless you do!

If you or a loved one has been involved in a work related accident, call our following number:

Elizabeth office :- (908) 351-8700
Hightstown office :- (609) 371-3600.

Vallejos & Morales P.C.

Achievements

Workers compensation laws in New Jersey