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Employer’s idiopathic defense against workers’ compensation claim in New Jersey

By Petrillo & Goldberg / October 8, 2019 / Comments Off on Employer’s idiopathic defense against workers’ compensation claim in New Jersey

An employer may try to defeat a workers’ compensation claim on the ground that the injury was idiopathic. The theory behind the defense is that the job did not cause the injury because the same injury would have resulted if the employee had not been on the job. A recent decision of the Appellate Division…