The New Jersey Supreme Court is deciding whether a volunteer firefighter injured while responding to a fire should be awarded workers’ compensation benefits even though she does not have outside employment.
A lawyer representing Bridgewater Township firefighter Jennifer Kocanowski asked the court on Thursday to overturn an appeals court decision holding that, since she was unemployed at the time of the incident, and since she had no other paying job, she was not entitled to benefits.
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