2009 New Jersey Code
TITLE 34 - LABOR AND WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION
34:15

• 34:15-1 - Employees' right to recover for negligent injury;  willful negligence as defense;  jury question
• 34:15-2 - Defenses abolished
• 34:15-3 - Contract not to bar liability
• 34:15-4 - Death of employee
• 34:15-5 - Burden of proof
• 34:15-6 - Liens for legal services 
• 34:15-7 - Compensation by agreement;  defenses;  burden of proof
• 34:15-7.1 - Horseplay or skylarking on part of fellow employees
• 34:15-7.2 - Claim based on cardiovascular or cerebral vascular causes; preponderance of credible evidence of proof of cause by work effort
• 34:15-7.3 - Worker's compensation for injury, death occurring while responding to law enforcement, public safety, medical emergency
• 34:15-8 - Election surrender of other remedies
• 34:15-9 - Presumption as to acceptance of elective compensation provisions
• 34:15-10 - Employment of minors
• 34:15-11 - Termination of contract
• 34:15-12 - Schedule of payments 
• 34:15-12.1 - Employees receiving subsistence payments from Veterans Administration;  special benefits
• 34:15-12.2 - Fund from which special benefit payable
• 34:15-12.3 - Amount of special benefit
• 34:15-12.4 - Application for special benefits;  payment
• 34:15-12.5 - Retroactive effect
• 34:15-12.6 - Period for making application
• 34:15-12.7 - Damage to prosthetic devices, hearing aids, artificial members;   dental appliances or eyeglasses;  liability
• 34:15-13 - Death benefits, burial expenses; computation and distribution
• 34:15-14 - Waiting period
• 34:15-15 - Medical and hospital service
• 34:15-15.1 - Reimbursement of insurance company or others paying medical, surgical or hospital expenses
• 34:15-15.2 - Hospital service;  care required;  expenses
• 34:15-15.3 - Motion by worker for emergent medical treatment
• 34:15-15.4 - Designation of contact person by carrier, self-insured employer
• 34:15-16 - Compensation to run consecutively;  payment for compensation, medical treatment, etc., after termination of liability
• 34:15-17 - Notification of employer
• 34:15-18 - Service of notice; form; sufficiency
• 34:15-19 - Examination of employee as to physical condition;  X-rays
• 34:15-20 - Dispute;  submission to division;  order approving settlement
• 34:15-21 - Payments in case of death; to whom made; bond 
• 34:15-22 - Dispute;  procedure;  agreement no bar to determination on merits
• 34:15-23 - Refusal of medical and surgical treatment by employee
• 34:15-24 - Payment of whole award in trust
• 34:15-25 - Commutation of award 
• 34:15-26 - Counsel fees 
• 34:15-27 - Modification of agreement;  review of award, determination, rule  for judgment or order approving settlement
• 34:15-28 - Interest on payments withheld
• 34:15-28.1 - Delay or refusal in payment of temporary disability compensation;  penalty
• 34:15-28.2 - Powers of judges of compensation
• 34:15-28.3 - Fines, penalties, assessments, costs not included in expense base of insurer
• 34:15-28.4 - Rules, regulations
• 34:15-29 - Compensation preferential lien;  claim not assignable;  set offs
• 34:15-30 - Occupational disease;  compensation for death or injury; exception
• 34:15-31 - "Compensable occupational disease"  defined
• 34:15-32 - Occupational disease;  determining disability and amount of compensation
• 34:15-33.2 - Effective date
• 34:15-34 - Time for claiming compensation for occupational disease
• 34:15-35 - Provisions applicable to occupational diseases;  claim for accident excluded
• 34:15-35.10 - Occupational hearing loss
• 34:15-35.11 - Definitions
• 34:15-35.12 - Degree of hearing loss;  determination of degree
• 34:15-35.13 - Liability for hearing loss;  previous hearing loss; audiometric testing
• 34:15-35.14 - Administration of testing;  fraud
• 34:15-35.15 - Frequencies;  evaluation of hearing loss
• 34:15-35.16 - Hearing tests;  instruments;  test conditions
• 34:15-35.17 - Audiometric technician to perform hearing test; audiologic evaluation
• 34:15-35.18 - Compensation amount
• 34:15-35.19 - Filing claims;  time limitations
• 34:15-35.20 - Time for filing claims;  date of disability
• 34:15-35.21 - Award;  use of hearing aids
• 34:15-35.22 - Failure to use protective devices, compensation for hearing loss
• 34:15-36 - Definitions
• 34:15-37 - Wages;  computation
• 34:15-38 - Method of calculating compensation for temporary disability
• 34:15-39 - Agreements and releases invalid
• 34:15-39.1 - Unlawful discharge of, or discrimination against, employee claiming compensation benefits;  penalty
• 34:15-39.2 - Additional penalty;  summary recovery
• 34:15-39.3 - Liability of employer for penalty
• 34:15-40 - Liability of third party
• 34:15-41 - Claims barred after two years
• 34:15-41.1 - Claimant in country at war with United States or with which postal communications are suspended;  limitations
• 34:15-42 - Constitutionality and construction
• 34:15-43 - Compensation for injury in line of duty
• 34:15-43.2 - Volunteer fire department members;  respiratory diseases; presumption of occupational disease
• 34:15-43.3 - Time of development or first manifestation of respiratory disease
• 34:15-43.4 - Maximum benefits for volunteers
• 34:15-44 - Names of public employees carried on pay roll
• 34:15-45 - Guardian's powers 
• 34:15-46 - Parent to act as guardian 
• 34:15-48 - Representative appointed for compensation beneficiary
• 34:15-49 - Jurisdiction of division; salaries, qualifications, tenure of judges, etc
• 34:15-49.1 - Referees designated judges of compensation
• 34:15-49.2 - Inapplicability of mandatory retirement for worker's compensation judges, certain
• 34:15-49.3 - Certain worker's compensation judges permitted to work beyond age 70
• 34:15-50 - Approval and filing of agreement
• 34:15-51 - Filing of petition; two year limit
• 34:15-52 - Copy of petition forwarded to employer
• 34:15-53 - Time, place and notice of hearing;  adjournment
• 34:15-54 - Dismissal of petition;  notice;  reinstatement
• 34:15-54.1 - Referee's powers as to dismissal of petitions for want of prosecution and reinstatement;  discontinuances
• 34:15-55 - Service of papers
• 34:15-55.1 - Secretary of workmen's compensation bureau as agent for service  of process on nonresidents;  method and effect of service; continuances
• 34:15-56 - Rules of evidence
• 34:15-57 - Summary hearing;  power to modify and commute award, determination and rule for judgment or order approving settlement
• 34:15-57a - Notice of unemployment compensation, conditions 
• 34:15-57.1 - Reimbursement of benefits paid under Temporary Disability Benefits Law
• 34:15-57.2 - Inquiry as to other payments received before paying compensation;  proof of amounts paid
• 34:15-57.3 - Effective date
• 34:15-57.4 - Workers' compensation fraud, crime of fourth degree; civil liability
• 34:15-58 - Judgment and settlement filed, receipts, bar of judgment 
• 34:15-59 - Docket;  records
• 34:15-60 - Subpoenas, fees, contempt 
• 34:15-61 - Administering oaths;  perjury
• 34:15-62 - Public hearings
• 34:15-63 - No filing fees
• 34:15-64 - Rules, regulations; fees for witnesses, attorneys
• 34:15-65 - Deposition of absent witness
• 34:15-66 - Appeal;  costs
• 34:15-66.1 - Judgment docketed;  execution;  supplementary proceedings
• 34:15-68 - Physical examination of employee
• 34:15-69 - Copy of judgment to be filed with director
• 34:15-69.1 - Discontinuance or sale of business;  discharge of employer from  further liability;  assumption of obligations by third party
• 34:15-69.2 - Order; filing; effect 
• 34:15-69.3 - Applicability of provisions of Title to third party assuming obligations
• 34:15-70 - Short title
• 34:15-71 - Employer's obligation to injured employee
• 34:15-72 - Employers not electing benefits of compensation law required to insure
• 34:15-73 - Proof of compliance
• 34:15-74.1 - Compensation insurance by volunteer fire company for volunteer  firemen and volunteer first aid or rescue squad workers
• 34:15-74.2 - Compensation insurance by board of education for members of board
• 34:15-75 - Compensation for injury, death for certain volunteers
• 34:15-77 - Employer carrying own insurance
• 34:15-77.1 - Hospitals;  group self-insurance;  conditions
• 34:15-77.2 - Liability for compensation prescribed by Title 34; bankruptcy of participating employer
• 34:15-77.3 - Addition or termination of participating employers; notice
• 34:15-77.4 - Termination of plan;  surety bond;  insurance policy
• 34:15-77.5 - Financial statement;  description of service organizations
• 34:15-77.6 - Annual examination
• 34:15-77.7 - Denial of application or revocation of consent
• 34:15-77.8 - Rules and regulations
• 34:15-78 - Insurance in stock or mutual company;  notice filed by company; domestic help excepted
• 34:15-79 - Penalties for failure to carry insurance
• 34:15-79.1 - Proof of workers' compensation coverage required with certain annual reports of employers
• 34:15-80 - Notices of insurance posted
• 34:15-81 - Cancellation of contract;  notice
• 34:15-82 - Liability for injuries or death
• 34:15-83 - Insurance contract for benefit of employees and dependents
• 34:15-84 - Enforcement of provisions 
• 34:15-85 - Knowledge of injury;  jurisdiction
• 34:15-86 - Insurance carrier directly liable
• 34:15-87 - Limitations and restrictions on liability
• 34:15-88 - Classification of risks, rates, schedules and rules; approval by  insurance commissioner
• 34:15-89.1 - Notification to mutual associations, stock companies of requirements of employer ID numbers
• 34:15-90.1 - Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau continued; directors, appointment, terms
• 34:15-90.2 - Authority of Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau
• 34:15-90.3 - Effective date
• 34:15-91 - Actuary and additional assistants in insurance department
• 34:15-92 - Domestic help excepted
• 34:15-92.1 - Other exceptions
• 34:15-93 - Expense of enforcement;  payments by insurers
• 34:15-94 - Annual surcharge for Second Injury Fund
• 34:15-95 - Second Injury Fund
• 34:15-95.1 - Application for benefits;  decision;  review;  Commissioner of  Labor as party
• 34:15-95.2 - Vested rights
• 34:15-95.3 - Application of chapter;  exemption of mutual agricultural insurance companies
• 34:15-95.4 - Special adjustment benefit payment
• 34:15-95.5 - Reduction of disability benefits for persons under age sixty-two;  exception
• 34:15-96 - First report of accident
• 34:15-98 - Final report of accident
• 34:15-99 - Report not public
• 34:15-100 - Medical reports
• 34:15-101 - Penalty for noncompliance
• 34:15-102 - Rules and regulations;  agreements filed
• 34:15-103 - Short title
• 34:15-104 - Definitions
• 34:15-105 - Workers' compensation security fund
• 34:15-105.1 - Workers' compensation security fund transferred
• 34:15-106 - Annual returns by carriers; "net written premiums" defined
• 34:15-107 - Contributions to the fund
• 34:15-108 - Contributions, when ceased; resumption of contributions
• 34:15-111 - Payment of claims; application; recovery
• 34:15-117 - Insolvency of carrier; notice to Division of Workers' Compensation; report of conditions
• 34:15-120.1 - Uninsured employer's fund
• 34:15-120.2 - Benefit payments
• 34:15-120.3 - Default by uninsured employer; judgment
• 34:15-120.4 - Application for compensation
• 34:15-120.5 - Subrogation;  right of fund against employer
• 34:15-120.6 - Annual accounting
• 34:15-120.7 - Rules, regulations
• 34:15-120.8 - Limitation on liability
• 34:15-120.9 - Action against employer
• 34:15-120.10 - Administrative expenses; $10,000 limit
• 34:15-120.11 - Duties of Division of Workers' Compensation
• 34:15-120.12 - Notification of change in income
• 34:15-120.13 - Exhaustion of remedies
• 34:15-120.14 - Other obligations unaffected
• 34:15-120.15 - Definitions 
• 34:15-120.16 - "New Jersey Self-Insurers Guaranty Association" 
• 34:15-120.17 - Board of directors 
• 34:15-120.18 - Association obligated for payment of compensation; powers; assessments 
• 34:15-120.19 - Insolvency Fund 
• 34:15-120.20 - Plan of operation 
• 34:15-120.21 - Written notice of bankruptcy proceedings, determination of insolvency 
• 34:15-120.22 - Powers of department 
• 34:15-120.23 - Assignment of rights to association 
• 34:15-120.24 - Detection, prevention of employer insolvencies 
• 34:15-120.25 - Examination, regulation of association 
• 34:15-120.26 - Immunity from liability 
• 34:15-120.27 - Stay of proceedings 
• 34:15-120.28 - Deadline for filing claims 
• 34:15-120.29 - Additional obligations of association 
• 34:15-120.30 - Construction of act 
• 34:15-121 - Workers' compensation formal cases; records, destruction
• 34:15-122 - Records of workmen's compensation of kind specified in article six
• 34:15-123 - Agreements for payment of workmen's compensation
• 34:15-124 - Records and papers not part of record of workmen's compensation  formal cases
• 34:15-125 - Records on microfilm or other media, destruction
• 34:15-126 - Force, effect of microfilm or other media
• 34:15-127 - Liability for destruction of records
• 34:15-128 - Limited right to inspect, copy records
• 34:15-128.1 - Short title
• 34:15-128.2 - Definitions relative to "Workers' Compensation Medical Information Confidentiality Act."
• 34:15-128.3 - Disclosure of medical information
• 34:15-128.4 - Withholding information unlawful; certain circumstances
• 34:15-128.5 - Violations, fine, penalty
• 34:15-130 - Findings, declarations
• 34:15-131 - Definitions relative to the New Jersey Horse Racing Injury Compensation Board
• 34:15-132 - "New Jersey Horse Racing Injury Compensation Board" established
• 34:15-134 - Insurance coverage; assessments
• 34:15-134.1 - Trainer to carry compensation insurance for employees, eligibility for coverage
• 34:15-135 - Employee, employer relationship under the act
• 34:15-136.1 - Documentation, maintenance of complete and accurate records of wages paid