McKeever v. N. J. Bell Telephone Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

FRITZ, P. J. A. D.

This appeal by the dependent from an adverse determination in her workers’ compensation death dependency claim presents still another challenge to the adherence in New Jersey to the “going and coming” rule. The challenge is forthright. It seeks the adoption of a modification “so as to afford protection to a worker during a portal to portal trip from home to his place of employment and his return home trip.” This effort must fail. Despite the infinite number of exceptions carved from it and its “rather limited applicability,” Briggs v.…