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Giving weight to risk factors, NJ high court denies workers’ compensation case

By Petrillo & Goldberg / November 10, 2014 / Comments Off on Giving weight to risk factors, NJ high court denies workers’ compensation case

On July 30, the New Jersey Supreme Court overturned a lower court decision awarding workers’ compensation benefits to the widower of an AT&T employee who died one hour after completing her work.  The facts behind the case are unusual, and the high court’s decision, which accounted for a number of newly argued risk factors that…