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• Review Your Deferred Compensation Plans to Avoid Penalty Taxation ( November 2004 )
  Evelyn A. Haralampu of Burns & Levinson LLP

  Tucked away in the voluminous American Jobs Creation Act of 2004, which was signed into law on October 22, 2004, is a provision changing the taxation of nonqualified deferred compensation. Nonqualified deferred compensation arrangements allow employees to defer the payment and income taxation of certain compensation. If the requirements of the new law are not satisfied, however, the deferred compensation is includable in the participant's taxable income before it is paid.

• Governor Schwarzenegger Signs Workers' Compensation Reform Bill ( May 2004 )
  Ronald A. Peters and Carolyn Sue Jenkins of Littler Mendelson, P.C.

  On Monday, April 19, 2004 Governor Schwarzenegger in response to his promise signed SB 899 (R-Poochigian) into law. Set forth below is a summary of the most significant reforms contained in SB 899. In recent years, workers' compensation costs have risen dramatically, leading to the demise of many of the state's workers' compensation insurance carriers.

• Jury Issues In Workers= Compensation Cases ( September 2000 )
  Barker, Leon & Fancher, LLP

  Texas Workers Compensation Insurance Fund v. Mandlbauer, 43 S.Ct.J. 1139, involved a second appeal from a trial cou.

• Case Evaluation and Penalties ( June 2000 )
  Timothy C. Stubblefield

  The valuation of permanent disability benefits including the type and extent of such benefits as well as the issue .

• The New Jersey Workers' Compensation Fraud Act ( December 1999 )
  Capehart & Scatchard, P.A.

  On August 14, 1998, Governor Whitman signed into law this state's first bill specifically addressing the issue of .

• Federal Issues Target State Workers' Compensation Programs ( November 1999 )
  Jon L. Gelman of Law Office of Jon L. Gelman

  Reprinted with Permission From The National Workplace Injury Litigator The battlefield for the assault on state w.

• Legislation Aims to Improve New Jersey's Benefit Structure ( November 1999 )
  Jon L. Gelman of Law Office of Jon L. Gelman

  Over the course of the last few years the United States economy has undergone radical change that will require New Jersey industry to reevaluate the manner in which it conducts business.

• Summary of California Workers' Rights and Benefits ( November 1999 )
  Law Offices of Ruben Salazar

  Unlike personal injuries, workers' compensation cases are decided on a "no-fault" basis.

• What is Worker's Compensation? ( September 1999 )
  The Goldberg Law Firm

  Worker's Compensation is a system of laws designed to provide injured workers with specific benefits and legal .