Legal Opinion
Richardson v. Board of Trustees, Police & Firemen's Retirement System
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided July 24, 2007PublishedCited by 185 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Long
On this appeal, we revisit the traumatic event standard under the accidental disability retirement provision of the Police & Firemen’s Retirement System (PFRS), N.J.S.A 43:16A-1 to 68.1 Under our current case law, to qualify as disabled by a “traumatic event” a member must prove: (a) that his injuries were not induced by the stress or strain of the normal work effort; (b) that he met involuntarily with the object or matter that was the source of the harm; and (c) that the source of the injury itself was “a great rush of force or uncontrollable power.” Kane v. Bd. of Trs., Police & Firemen’s…
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