A public employee’s negligence contributing to a workplace accident must be willful to disqualify him from an accidental disability pension, a New Jersey appeals court ruled on Tuesday.
The court held that a school custodian injured as he and two students were trying to lift a heavy object could be found the victim of an “undesigned and unexpected” event the standard set forth by the state Supreme Court.
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