New Jersey Makes List of "Top Ten" Bizarre WC Decisions
Wednesday, February 03, 2010 Filed in: Workers
Compensation| New Jersey
Each year Lexis-Nexis, one of the biggest legal
publishers, creates a list of "Top 10" most bizarre
cases. This year, They named
Sexton v. County of Cumberland to the list.
In Sexton, the New Jersey Appellate Division
reversed the ruling of a workers' compensation judge
and held that the alleged aggravation of claimant's
pre-existing COPD caused by inhaling perfume sprayed
into the air by a co-worker "arose out of and int he
course of" employment and was compensable.
