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Dept/ Agency: Law
Action: ( ) Ratifying (X) Authorizing ( ) Amending
Purpose: Settlement of Workers' Compensation Claim
C.P. No.: 2015-2010
Claimant: Elizabeth Loneker
Claimant's Attorney: Rothenberg, Rubenstein, Berliner & Shinrod
Attorney's Address: 70 South Orange Avenue, Suite 205, Livingston, New Jersey 07039
Settlement Amount: $27,882.00
Funding Source: Insurance Fund Commission
Additional Comments:
Invitation: Corporation Counsel
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WHEREAS, the Petitioner, Police Officer Elizabeth Loneker, instituted suit in the Division of Workers Compensation of New Jersey, Essex County, bearing C.P. Number 2015-2010 against the City of Newark seeking workers' compensation benefits as a result of an accident that she sustained on December 9, 2014, while working for the City of Newark, Department of Public Safety, Police Division when she injured her lumbar spine, left shoulder and left hip; and
WHEREAS, following settlement negotiations through Petitioner's attorney, Rothenberg Rubenstein Berliner & Shinrod, Corporation Counsel and/or Chasan Lamparello Mallon & Cappuzzo ("Outside Counsel") has agreed to amicably resolve and settle this matter under Section 22 of the Workers Compensation Act (N.J.S.A. 34:15-22) by payment in the amount of Twenty-Four Thousand Seventeen Dollars and Zero Cents ($24,017.00). Pursuant to the terms of the Settlement Order to be executed by the Judge of the Division of Workers' Compensation, the City of Newark will also pay an attorney's fee of Three Thousand Four Hundred Seventy-Five Dollars and Zero Cents ($3,475.00), medical evaluation fee in the amount of Three Hundred Dollars and Zero Cents ($300.00) and a transcription fee of Ninety Dollars and Zero Cents ($90.00); and
WHEREAS, the total value of this settlement with the above referred to fees amounts to Twenty-Seven Thousand Eight Hundred Eighty-Two Dollars and Zero Cents ($27,882.00); and
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