reinstating Board decision denying accidental disability benefits and granting ordinary disability benefits to plaintiff who was totally and permanently disabled
How later courts described this case
- reinstating Board decision denying accidental disability benefits and granting ordinary disability benefits to plaintiff who was totally and permanently disabled
- both holding that slip and fall accidents were not traumatic events
- not a "traumatic event" where schoolteacher slipped and fell on highly polished floor
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
STEIN, J.,
concurring.
I concur in the judgment of the Court. I disagree with its analysis for the reasons set forth in my dissenting opinion in *178 Ciecwisz v. Board of Trustees, Police and Firemen’s Retirement System, 113 N.J. 180 (1988), also decided today.