Legal Opinion
Bird v. Somerset Hills Country Club
New Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division
Decided March 3, 1998PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
PETRELLA, P.J.A.D.
Somerset Hills Country Club (Somerset Hills) appeals from an award of workers’ compensation to its employee, Teddy W. Bird, who was found to have contracted Lyme disease while working as *520a groundskeeper for Somerset Hills. Somerset Hills contends that Bird did not prove that he suffered from a compensable occupational disease under N.J.S.A. 34:15-31; that the examining physician should not have been permitted to give an expert opinion on causation; that the Workers’ Compensation judge erred in admitting and relying upon medical…
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