[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 361

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 1996 SESSION

By Assemblyman HOLZAPFEL and Assemblywoman Allen

An Act concerning workers' compensation fraud and supplementing chapter 15 of Title 34 of the Revised Statutes.

    Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

    1. The division shall order immediate termination or denial of benefits provided pursuant to this article with respect to any claim for which the division determines that the claimant has willfully obtained or attempted to obtain benefits by knowingly making , when making that claim, a false statement or representation concerning any fact or thing material to that claim for the purpose of obtaining those benefits and the division may order, with respect to the claim, a forfeiture of all rights of compensation or payments sought.

    Nothwithstanding any other provision of law, and in addition to any other remedy available under law, if an employee has received benefits pursuant to this article to which the employee is not entitled, the employee is liable to repay that sum ¹ plus simple interest¹ to the employer or the carrier or have the sum ¹plus simple interst¹ deducted from future benefits payable to the employee, and the division shall issue an order providing for the repayment or deduction.

    2. This act shall take effect immediately.

Concerns workers' compensation fraud.