Jeffrey S. Monaghan is a Partner in the Workers’ Compensation department, concentrating his practice primarily on representing injured workers.
He received his undergraduate degree from Iona College in New Rochelle, New York. Following graduation from Seton Hall Law School, Mr. Monaghan worked in the Office of Governor’s Counsel in the administration of the Honorable Thomas H. Kean. Mr. Monaghan then worked for the Office of Legal and Legislative Affairs of the Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Health and later as a Deputy Attorney General for the Tort Claims Section of the Office of the New Jersey Attorney General.
Mr. Monaghan’s settlements of note include a $115,000 recovery for a work related exposure involving Silicosis; a $350,000 recovery for multiple orthopedic and head injuries sustained from an individual being struck by a motor vehicle while crossing the street; $287,000 plus lifetime workers’ compensation disability benefits for a heart attack found to be causally related to the individual’s employment and a $185,000 recovery for a worker exposed to Lyme Disease during the course of her employment.
Mr. Monaghan is a member of the New Jersey State and Mercer County Bar Associations. Formerly he was a member of the New Jersey Workers’ Compensation Inns of Court program. Since 2006, Mr. Monaghan has served on the Board of Governors of the New Jersey Association for Justice and is the co-chair of the Workers’ Compensation Section.
In 2019 Mr. Monaghan appeared as Amicus Curiae Counsel for the Association before the New Jersey Supreme Court in the case of Kocanowski v Township of Bridgewater which concerned the issue of whether a volunteer fireman injured in the course of her service as a volunteer firefighter was entitled to receive certain workers compensation benefits. Mr. Monaghan argued that the injured firefighter was entitled to receive a period of wage replacement benefits in the aftermath of the accident. On February 19, the New Jersey Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision ruling that the injured volunteer firefighter was intitled to receive these payments.
In 2021 The New Jersey Association of Justice awarded Mr. Monaghan the Gerald B. O’ Connor Professionalism Award. The award was created to honor the memory of a legendary trail attorney whose advocacy and professionalism earned him the respect of his his peers.
Mr. Monaghan is also a member of the New Jersey Commissioner of Labor’s Advisory Council on Workers’ Compensation. He has given a number of lectures for the New Jersey Association for Justice and for the Mercer County Law Day Seminars.