A New Jersey Department of Education employee who was injured when driving to work on a snowy day because she was not aware a meeting had been canceled will not receive a full disability pension.<\/p>\n
Ursula Cargill had appealed a Board of Trustees of the Public Employees\u2019 Retirement System ruling. Cargill applied for benefits due to the injuries she sustained in the February 2010 accident. <\/p>\n
Cargill was granted the ordinary disability pension, which amounts to over $44,000 a year, instead of the accidental disability pension which can pay two-thirds of an employee\u2019s last salary. New Jersey pension records show Cargill had been working for 11 years and was making a salary of $101,549.<\/p>\n
During Cargill\u2019s drive to the meeting, she slid off the road after hitting a patch of ice. Cargill testified she tried to push her rear bumper to get the car out of a snowbank and experienced a \u201ctwinge in her lower back.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cargill worked for another year before applying for her retirement pension in March 2011. The pension board ruled she was permanently disabled but deemed her injury was \u201cnot undesigned and unexpected.\u201d<\/p>\n
On appeal, an administrative law judge also ruled Cargill\u2019s injury was expected and said she did not qualify for accidental disability because the injury happened on her way to work and not while she was at work. The appellate panel agreed.<\/p>\n
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Una empleada del Departamento de Educaci\u00f3n de Nueva Jersey que result\u00f3 herida mientras se dirig\u00eda al trabajo en un d\u00eda de nieve porque no sab\u00eda que se hab\u00eda cancelado una reuni\u00f3n no recibir\u00e1 una pensi\u00f3n por incapacidad total. \u00darsula Cargill hab\u00eda recurrido una resoluci\u00f3n del Consejo de Administraci\u00f3n del Sistema de Jubilaci\u00f3n de los Empleados P\u00fablicos. Cargill solicit\u00f3 las prestaciones debido a\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1729,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[407,408,66],"class_list":["post-1728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-workers-compensation","tag-department-of-education","tag-full-disability-pension","tag-new-jersey"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728","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=1728"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1731,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions\/1731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}