Prudence M. Higbee - Blackwood, NJ

Overview

Awards and Honors

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Education

• Legal Education

  • Widener University Delaware Law School, Wilmington, Delaware, May, 1999
    Law Journal: Widener Law Symposium Journal

• Non Legal Education

  • Rowan College of New Jersey, Glassboro, New Jersey, 1996
    B.A., Bachelor of Arts
    Major: Political Science

Past Positions

• Honorable Samuel G. DeSimone, former Assignment Judge of Vicinage 15, Judicial Clerk

Classes and Seminars

• What You Need to Know About Legal Presumptions In Workers’ Compensation, Millennium Seminars, LLC, 2020
  
• Red Hot Topics in New Jersey Comp, Millennium Seminars, LLC, 2020
  
• Panel Discussion: Comparing New Jersey Comp Law to Maryland, Delaware, D.C. and Virginia Laws, Millennium Seminars, LLC, 2019
  
• Key Defenses For Employers To Know In New Jersey, Millennium Seminars, LLC, 2018
  
• New Jersey Workers’ Comp Overview for Comp Professionals, ESIS, 2017
  
• New Jersey Workers’ Comp Law For Physicians, Cumberland County Insurance Commission, 2017
  
• New Jersey Workers’ Comp Overview for Comp Professionals , AmTrust North America, 2016
  
• New Jersey Workers’ Comp Overview for Comp Professionals, CCMSI, 2015
  
• New Jersey Workers’ Comp Overview for Comp Professionals, Qual-Lynx, 2015
  
• New Jersey Workers’ Comp Overview for Comp Professionals; Recent Cases and Trends in Workers’ Compensation; Properly Calculating Rates Under the New Jersey Statute & Types of Settlements; AND The Amtrust College Bowl, AmTrust North America, 2015
  
• Hot Topics in Workers’ Comp and What the Statute Teaches Us AND Panel Discussion on IMEs in Workers’ Comp, Millennium Seminars, LLC, 2015
  
• New Jersey Workers’ Comp Overview for Comp Professionals, CorVel Corporation, 2015
  
• New Jersey Workers’ Comp Overview for Comp Professionals, Caesars, 2015
  
• New Jersey Workers’ Compensation Law for Physicians, CCMSI, 2015
  
• Compensability Scenarios & Overview AND Litigation and Discovery Process, CorVel Corporation, 2014
  
• The Recent Cases You Need to Know in New Jersey, Properly Calculating Awards Under the New Jersey Statute and A Civil Debate, AmTrust North America, 2014
  
• Are you in a State of Denial; The Recent Cases You Need to Know in New Jersey; AND Case Scenarios, AmTrust North America, 2013
  
• The Key Defenses Employers Must Know, Qual-Lynx, 2013
  
• Properly Calculating Awards under the New Jersey Statute AND Occupational Disease Claims, CCMSI, 2013
  
• Workers’ Compensation Update, CCMSI, 2013
  
• Case Scenarios, AmTrust North America, 2013
  
• The Recent Cases You Need To Know In New Jersey, AmTrust North America, 2013
  
• Are You In A State Of Denial?, AmTrust North America, 2013
  
• Occupational Disease Claims, In-House CCMSI, 2013
  
• Properly Calculating Awards Under the New Jersey Statute, In-House CCMSI, 2013
  
• The Key Defenses Employers Must Know, In-House Qual-Lynx, 2013
  
• Workers' Compensation Update, In-House CCMSI, 2013
  
• New Jersey Workers' Compensation Law For Claims Professionals, In-House Amtrust North America, 2012
  
• The Basic Structure of New Jersey Workers' Comp Law, Millennium Seminars, LLC, 2012
  
• New Jersey Workers' Comp Overview for Comp Professionals, In-House Scibal Associates, 2012
  
• New Jersey Workers' Comp Overview for Comp Professionals, In-House Amtrust North America, 2012
  
• Jeopardy and Recent Cases You Should Know About New Jersey Comp, in-house First Cardinal, LLC, 2011
  
• Case and Statute Overview for Comp Professionals and Fraud, in-house Whole Foods Market, 2011
  
• Fraud, in-house for Scibal Associates, 2010
  
• Key Court Decisions You Need To Know From 2009-2010," "Properly Calculating Awards Under The New Jersey Statute," and "The Right To Control Treatment And Termination Of Benefits, in-house First Cardinal, LLC , 2010
  
• Case And Statute Overview For Claims Professionals, Millennium, Seminars, LLC, 2010
  
• A Good Workers' Compensation Program Is No Accident, New Jersey Associations of Counties, 2010
  
• Properly Calculating Awards Under The New Jersey Statute, Basic Compensability Issues, and Section 40 Liens, in-house seminar to client, CCMSI, 2010
  
• New Jersey Comp Fundamentals: Statutes and Strategies You Must Know, Case Law Update, and Deciphering the Mystery of the New Jersey Rate Chart, First Cardinal, 2009
  
• New Jersey Comp Fundamentals: Statutes and Strategies You Must Know, in-house presentation to Costco, 2009
  
• Everything You Never Understood About Workers' Compensation Liens: Subrogation Made Simple, in-house presentation to client, Inservco Insurance Services, Inc., 2008
  
• Workers' Compensation Update, in-house presentation to client, ACE USA, 2008
  
• Basic Workers' Compensation in New Jersey, Lorman Education Services, 2005
  
• Compliance with Medicare Secondary Payer Statute, Scibal Associates/Advantage Corp., 2005
  
• HIPAA Privacy Regulations and Worker's Compensation In New Jersey, Lorman Education Services, 2004
  
• New Jersey Workers' Comp Update 2003, Council on Education in Management, 2003
  
• Overview of the New Jersey Workers' Compensation Act, Council on Education in Management, 2002
  
• The Fundamentals of Workers' Comp in New Jersey - A Comprehensive A to Z Guide to Workers' Comp Management and Compliance in New Jersey, Council on Education in Management, 2001
  
• New Jersey Recent Development Update: Recent Developments in Workers' Comp: How the Latest Legislation and Judicial Decisions in New Jersey Impact Your Business, Workers' Comp, 2001
  
• New Jersey Recent Development Update: Recent Developments in Workers' Comp: How the Latest Legislation and Judicial Decisions in New Jersey Impact Your Business, Council on Education in Management, 2001

Published Works

Articles

• Unresolved Issues: HIPAA and Workers' Compensation, NYCOM, Across The Table, May/June, 2003
  

Bar Admissions

• New Jersey, 1999
• Pennsylvania, 2000

Other Affiliations

• American Bar Association (Member)
• Burlington County Bar Association (Member)
• Gloucester County Bar Association (Member)
• New Jersey State Bar Association, Workers' Compensation Division

Fraternities and Sororities

• Phi Delta Phi