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Using the inability to understand English as a ground for total disability under the odd-lot doctrine

By Petrillo & Goldberg / February 3, 2020 / Comments Off on Using the inability to understand English as a ground for total disability under the odd-lot doctrine

New Jersey workers’ compensation law allows judges to use the odd-lot doctrine to consider factors beyond physical and neuropsychiatric impairments to find a worker permanently and totally disabled. The issue was before the Appellate Division of the Superior Court of New Jersey in a case in which the injured employee argued her limited English should…