A statewide security upgrade has been implemented in New Jersey’s workers’ compensation courts after an evaluation by the Department of Labor and Workforce Development (NJDOL). The New Jersey State Bar Association (NJSBA) recently sent a letter outlining its own concerns about security following an incident involving an injured worker threatening to kill people, including a workers’ compensation judge.
“The NJSBA is concerned for the safety of the judges, the staff, the lawyers and the general public who appear in the workers’ compensation courts,” said NJSBA President Evelyn Padin in a letter to the department’s commissioner, Robert Asaro-Angelo. Commissioner Asaro-Angelo responded to the concerns in a letter less than a month after it was sent, assuring Padin that the security assessments had been performed and outlining the security upgrades already being implemented.
