JOHN H. GEANEY

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1 JOHN H. GEANEY AREA OF FOCUS Member of the Firm s Executive Committee and Shareholder, Workers Compensation Department. Practice involves representation of employers, self-insured companies, third party administrators, and insurance carriers in workers compensation, and the Americans with Disabilities Act and Family and Medical Leave Act. He also conducts training sessions on workers compensation, ADA, and FMLA issues. Boston College Law School, Chestnut Hill, MA J.D. degree, 1982 EDUCATION Holy Cross College, Worcester, MA B.A. degree, summa cum laude -English, 1979 Durham University, Durham, England, PUBLICATIONS Geaney s New Jersey Workers Compensation Manual for Practitioners, Adjusters, and Employers, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2011 editions, distributed by the New Jersey Institute of Continuing Legal Education. Medical Expense Landmines: Clearing the Workers-Comp Benefit Highway, TRIAL LAW insert from New Jersey Lawyer, April Five Absence Management Protocols For Workers Compensation Injuries In New Jersey, article from the Government Finance Officers Association of New Jersey Report, April The Top Three in WC, New Jersey Lawyer, December Guide to Employment Issues under the ADA and FMLA for Practitioners and Employers, 2004, 2006 editions, distributed by the New Jersey Institute of Continuing Legal Education. The Relationship of Workers Compensation to the Americans with Disabilities Act and Family and Medical Leave Act, Clinics in Occupational and Environmental Medicine, May 2004.

2 Currents In ADA/FMLA/Workers Comp, weekly e-newsletter designed to provide accurate and authoritative information with respect to developments and cases in the areas of workers compensation, Americans with Disabilities Act, Family Medical Leave Act, and the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination. Summaries of three court cases and FMLA advice on each, Across the Table, March/April Drafting Return to Work/Fitness For Duty Policies, The Bottom Line, Volume 18, The Decline of the Independent Contract Benefit Defense in New Jersey, The Bottom Line, November How to Design a Modified Duty Program, New Jersey Municipalities, October The Benefits of Modified Duty Policies, The Bottom Line, September Workers Compensation Manual for Adjusters and Employers in New Jersey, a bound booklet created especially for Firm clients and contacts, Workers Compensation Away from the Worksite, New Jersey Municipalities, June Managing Employees With Psychiatric Disabilities, New Jersey Municipalities, November Seven Steps To Reducing Workers Compensation Cost, New Jersey Municipalities, April Fitness-For-Duty Examination, New Jersey Municipalities, October Strategies for Defending Respiratory Claims, New Jersey Municipalities, March PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Workers Compensation Law attorney Named a Super Lawyer as voted by his peers and facilitated by Law & Politics and New Jersey Monthly Recognized as one of South Jersey s Top Attorneys as published by SJ Magazine Member: American Bar Association Fellow of the College of Workers Compensation Lawyers Burlington County Bar Association (Chairman, Workers Compensation Section ) National Council of Self-Insurers National Workers Compensation Defense Network, New Jersey designee New Jersey Bar Association (Board of Directors of The Certified Trial Attorney Section and member of the Labor & Employment Law and Workers Compensation Sections) New Jersey Self Insurers Association (Membership and Program Committees) Consultant Services: City of Paterson and Garden State Municipal Joint Insurance Fund (Workers Compensation Litigation Coordinator)

3 COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES Board of Directors, Friends of MEND, Inc. (Trustee, 2004) Camden County ADA Advisory Committee, 1993 Mayor, Voorhees Township, 1991 Township Committeeman, Voorhees Township, President, Gibbsboro-Voorhees Lions Club, Commissioner, Camden County Library Township Prosecutor, Cinnaminson Township, 1986 New Jersey (1982) BAR ADMISSIONS PRESENTATIONS New Jersey Workers Compensation Law For Physicians, Tri-County Orthopedics - December Why The Medical Aspects Of the Case Really Dictate The Outcome In New Jersey Workers Compensation and The Intersection Among Workers Comp, ADA, FMLA and GINA, - Millennium Seminars, LLC - December Fighting Fraud, Issues Pertaining To School Boards In Workers Compensation, and Mock Trial - New Jersey Association of School Business Officials - November The Major Changes In the FMLA And Their Effect On Workers Comp, - in-house GSMJIF - November Fighting Fraud, New Jersey Workers Comp Overview For Comp Professionals, and Recent Cases You Should Know About New Jersey Comp, - in-house Gallagher Bassett Services, Inc. - November Fraud And Medical Issues In New Jersey Workers Compensation, - Tri-County Orthopedics - October Medical/Legal Issues In Workers Compensation, - Atlantic County - September Offsets For Accidental & Ordinary Disability Pensions and Fighting Fraud, - Fairview Insurance Associates, Inc. - September Jeopardy and Recent Cases You Should Know About New Jersey Comp, -- in-house First Cardinal, LLC -- August Yes, You Can Win In Workers Comp And Reduce Costs Too and The Cross Over Laws That Comp Practitioners Need To Know: ADA, FMLA And GINA, Millennium Seminars, LLC - July 2011.

4 Recent Cases You Should Know About New Jersey Comp and Offsets for Accidental & Ordinary Disability Pensions, -- GSMJIF -- June New Jersey Workers Compensation Law for Physicians, -- in-house Monmouth County -- June Fraud And Repeaters, Fitness For Duty Exams, And FCES, Review Of State Disability Pensions And FMLA Q&A, -- in-house Garden State Municipal Joint Insurance Fund -- May Workers Compensation Panel Presentation, -- in-house Northeast Bergen County School Board Insurance Group -- May So You Think You ve Got It Bad!, Attorney Panel Discussion -- New Jersey Self Insurers Association -- May Basic Compensability Issues, -- in-house for PMA, April Employment Extravaganza: The Changing Legal Landscape: Workers Compensation and Disability/Fitness Issues after the ADA Amendments Act and the 2009 FMLA Regulations, American Bar Association, April Important Court Decisions in 2010 Which You Need to Know and Fraud, MEL, April Nuts and Bolts of New Jersey Workers Compensation, in-house Amerisure Insurance, March Understanding Permanency Awards in New Jersey and Ways to Settle Cases, Fraud, Important Court Decisions in 2010 Which You Need To Know, New Jersey Subrogation Rules Section 40 Liens, and Fraud, in-house Meadowbrook Insurance Group, March Case and Statute Overview for Comp Professionals and Fraud, in-house Whole Foods Market, March Overview of Employment Laws: Workers Compensation, ADA, FMLA, NJFLA and Paid Leave Laws, in-house Galloway Township, January Overview of Employment Laws, and COBRA, in-house R.E. Pierson Construction Co., Inc., December The Key Statutes And Defenses You Need To Know, and Ten Terrific Ideas For Controlling Comp Costs And Improving Your Comp Program, Millennium Seminars, LLC., December Mock Trial, New Jersey Self Insurers Association, November Understanding Permanency Awards In New Jersey, Verizon and Sedgwick CMS, November Case And Statute Overview For Comp Professionals, Risk Enterprise Management, November 2010.

5 The Top Ten Claims Management Mistakes And How To Avoid Them, Council On Education, October, Offsets for Accidental & Ordinary Disability Pensions, Key Court Decisions You Need To Know From , and Post-Offer Medical Exams And Fitness-For-Duty Exams, in-house GSMJIF Panel Counsel, September, Key Court Decisions You Need To Know From , Fraud, Properly Calculating Awards Under The New Jersey Statute, and The Right To Control Treatment And Termination Of Benefits, in-house First Cardinal, LLC, August Why The ADA & FMLA Amendments Should Be Important To Comp Managers, Key Court Decisions You Need To Know From , and Case And Statute Overview For Claims Professionals, Millennium, Seminars, LLC, July Integrating WC, ADA and FMLA, in-house Holman Automotive Group, June New Jersey Workers Compensation Law For Health Care Professionals, in-house New Jersey Sports & Exposition Authority, June New Jersey Workers Compensation Law For Physicians, Rothman Institute, June 2010 in their Philadelphia and Egg Harbor Township locations. New Jersey Workers Compensation Law For Physicians, in-house Bergen Regional Medical Center, May Three Of A Kind - Workers Compensation, Fraud and Surveillance, and Three Card Monte - The Tangled Web of WC, ADA and FML, New Jersey Self Insurers Association - May Workers Comp Case Law and FMLA/ADA Update, Fighting Fraud From Inside And Out, and How Employers Can Put Big Money In Their Own Pockets, Millennium Seminars, April The Major Changes In The ADAAA and FMLA Amendments And Their Effect On Workers Comp, in-house to GSMJIF, April New Jersey Workers Compensation Law For Physicians, and Top Ten Cases To Know In Workers Comp, ExamWorks, April The Employer Perspective On the ADA Amendments Act of 2008 and 2009 FMLA Regulations, American Bar Association in Phoenix, Arizona, March Top Issues in Workers Compensation, Perlmart, Inc., March Workers Compensation Update, in-house to PIP Pool, March New Jersey Workers Compensation Law for Physicians, University Orthopaedic Associates, LLC, March New Jersey Comp Fundamentals: Statutes and Strategies You Must Know, and Properly Calculating Awards Under The New Jersey Statute, in-house seminar to GAB Robins North America, Inc., February 2010.

6 Workers Compensation Update, in-house seminar to NESBIG, February Fraud, South Jersey Claims Association, January Section 40 Liens, Navigating The Second Injury Fund, Properly Calculating Awards Under The New Jersey Statute, and Occupational Disease Claims,, in-house seminar to client, Gallagher Bassett Services, Inc., January Mastering Workers Comp in New Jersey! Millennium Seminars, December, New Jersey Workers Compensation Law For Physicians, Englewood Knee And Sports Medicine Orthopedics, December Fraud, in-house seminar to client PMA, December Case Law Update, Deciphering The Mystery Of The New Jersey Rate Chart, and New Jersey Comp Fundamentals: Statutes And Strategies You Must Know, in-house presentation to client, Clayton Companies, November The Impact on the Recent ADA and FMLA Amendments on Workers Compensation, New Jersey State Bar Association, November Occupational Claims Panel Discussion, New Jersey Self Insurers Association, October 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, October The 2008 Amendments to the ADA and FMLA and Their Impact on Workers Compensation, National Workers Compensation Defense Network, October Cracking Down on Fraudulent Claims, The Onslaught of Workers Comp Claims in the Downturn Economy, and Update on Noteworthy 2009 New Jersey Workers Comp Decisions and Recent Reform Legislation and Their Impact on Employers and Other Stakeholders, Council On Education in Management, October New Jersey Comp Fundamentals: Statutes and Strategies You Must Know, Deciphering the Mystery of the New Jersey Rate Chart and Case Law Update, inhouse seminar to Transguard Insurance Company, October Occupational Disease Claims, Basic Compensability Issues and Post-Offer Medical Exams and Fitness for Duty Exams, in-house presentation to Somerset County JIF, September Update on Recent Decisions and Legislation, Point/Counterpoint, and Top Ten Workers Compensation Cases to Know, New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, August Top Ten Workers Compensation Cases To Know; Update on Recent Decisions And Legislation; and The 2008 Workers Comp Reform Legislation: How Will It Affect Your Company, in-house presentation to Meadowbrook Insurance Group, August

7 New Jersey Comp Fundamentals: Statutes and Strategies You Must Know; Case Law Update; and Deciphering The Mystery Of The New Jersey Rate Chart, in-house seminar to Matrix, July The New Land: Life After The ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA), presentation to SEAK at their 29 th Annual National Workers Compensation and Occupational Medicine Conference, July New Jersey Comp Fundamentals: Statutes and Strategies You Must Know; Case Law Update; and Deciphering The Mystery Of The New Jersey Rate Chart, in-house seminar to FARA Insurance Services, June Mastering Workers Comp in New Jersey, presentation to Millennium Seminars, June Statutes and Strategies You Need to Know, in-house presentation to Jersey Rehab, June Case Law Update, in-house presentation to PIP Pool, June New Jersey Comp Fundamentals: Statutes and Strategies You Must Know, in-house presentation to Costco, June The New Land: Life After The ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA) and Summary Of 2008 FMLA Regulations, in-house presentation to Gloucester County Bar Association, May Point/Counter Point, presentation to the New Jersey Self Insurers Association, May Case Law Update, in-house presentation to client, NESBIG, Case Law Update, in-house presentation to client, PMA, May, Post-Offer Medical and Fitness-For-Duty Examinations, in-house presentation to client, Garden State Municipal Joint Insurance Fund, March Statutes and Strategies You Need To Know, -- in-house presentation to client Bergen Regional Medical Center, March Workers Comp 101, Summary Of 2008 FMLA Regulations, New Jersey s Paid Leave Law, and ADA Amendments Act, -- in-house presentation to Gerresheimer Glass, Inc., March Summary Of 2008 FMLA Regulations, New Jersey s Paid Leave Law, and ADA Amendments Act, -- presentation to Camden County Mayors Association, March