not a "traumatic event" where corrections officer slipped and fell on cooking oil spilled on floor by inmates
How later courts described this case
- not a "traumatic event" where corrections officer slipped and fell on cooking oil spilled on floor by inmates
Written by the judges who cited it.
Distinguished
Distinguished by Richardson v. POLICE & F. RET. SYS., 192 N.J. 189 (2007)
We distinguished those cases from Maynard and Ciecwisz; held that each officer sustained his injuries as the result of a great rush of force or uncontrollable power; and recognized the "actions of an unruly inmate" as the necessary qualifying external force distinct from an employee's "own conduct.
The opinion
O’HERN, J.,
dissenting.
I dissent from the judgment of the Court for the reasons set forth in my dissent filed this day in Maynard v. Board of Trustees, 113 N.J. 169 (1988).
Justice HANDLER joins in this opinion.