{"id":1560,"date":"2018-05-18T18:49:53","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T18:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/?p=1560"},"modified":"2024-08-07T17:59:53","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T17:59:53","slug":"un-tribunal-deniega-la-indemnizacion-por-accidente-laboral-a-un-bombero-que-sufrio-una-caida-durante-un-altercado-en-el-trabajo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/es\/2018\/05\/court-refuses-workers-comp-for-firefighter-who-fell-in-work-skirmish\/","title":{"rendered":"Un tribunal deniega la indemnizaci\u00f3n a un bombero que se cay\u00f3 en una refriega laboral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a volunteer firefighter suffered from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/practice-areas\/worksite-accidents\/workplace-head-injury-lawyer\/\">serious head trauma<\/a> after a clash over horseplay, a state appellate court ruled that he could not recover damages with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/practice-areas\/workers-compensation\/\">workers\u2019 compensation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jamie Benimadho fell during a disagreement in a parking lot, striking his head against the pavement. From the incident he suffered hemorrhages, traumatic brain injury and a fractured skull.<\/p>\n<p>A group of firefighters were in a parking lot before a class started at the Somerset County Emergency Services Training Academy in Hillsborough, New Jersey. As Benimadho arrived at the scene an argument which began as horseplay erupted between two firefighters, Darin Watkins and Benimadho\u2019s cousin, Kenneth Wise.<\/p>\n<p>Though Benimadho knew Watkins was prone to roughhousing with friends, he felt that the incident was a \u201cviolent altercation.\u201d Another firefighter, Cody Hresan, had also told Watkins to \u201ccalm down\u201d and \u201crelax.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Benimadho approached Watkins, pushed him and then grabbed him by the waist. In turn, Watkins put Benimadho in a headlock and asked if he \u201cwas done.\u201d Benimadho replied, \u201cI\u2019m good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, when Watkins let go, Benimadho collapsed backward. Though Watkins tried to catch him, Benimadho hit his head on the pavement.<\/p>\n<p>The appellate court saw Benimadho\u2019s activity as \u201cpersonal,\u201d while Benimadho argued that he was attempting to enforce the school\u2019s rule concerning horseplay. The court confirmed the original statement that Benimadho \u201cwas not injured in the scope\u201d of duty.<\/p>\n<p>Benimadho was given $150,000 by the county as settlement.<\/p>\n<p>[footer block_id=&#8217;721&#8242;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuando un bombero voluntario sufri\u00f3 un traumatismo craneal grave tras un altercado por unas payasadas, un tribunal de apelaci\u00f3n estatal dictamin\u00f3 que no pod\u00eda reclamar una indemnizaci\u00f3n por da\u00f1os y perjuicios a trav\u00e9s del seguro de accidentes de trabajo. Jamie Benimadho se cay\u00f3 durante una discusi\u00f3n en un aparcamiento y se golpe\u00f3 la cabeza contra el suelo. A ra\u00edz del incidente, sufri\u00f3 hemorragias, una lesi\u00f3n cerebral traum\u00e1tica y un\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[347,351,66,349,350,352,348,238],"class_list":["post-1560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-workers-compensation","tag-firefighter","tag-hillsborough","tag-new-jersey","tag-serious-head-trauma","tag-somerset-county","tag-traumatic-brain-injury","tag-volunteer-firefighter","tag-workers-compensation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1560"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4263,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560\/revisions\/4263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}