Archive for December, 2012
City Properly Denied Plaintiff Donated Sick Bank Days Because She Could not Show a Catastrophic Injury as Defined in the Collective Bargaining Agreement
Kelly Queen, plaintiff, worked as a police dispatcher for the City of Bridgeton. On October 16, 2006, she experienced a racing heartbeat and left work. Her family doctor referred her to a cardiologist. He diagnosed her with a mitral valve prolapse condition, which may have been responsible for tachycardia and dyspnea. She also underwent a cardiovascular […]
Owner of Construction Company Was Covered When He Fell and Became Paralyzed While Doing Work on His Own Home
Daniel Cordeiro owned Danny’s Construction Company, which did masonry and concrete work. The company employed eight or nine employees. Cordeiro purchased an investment property in Asbury Park, New Jersey. He listed Danny’s as the repair and renovation general contractor on the construction permits. As general contractor, Danny’s hired plumbing and electrical subcontractors and paid the […]
Transfer to New Job Location for Medical Reasons May be a Reasonable Accommodation Under ADA
Clarice Sanchez worked for the US Forest Service in Lufkin, Texas. She was injured at work falling down a flight of stairs, causing a homonymous hemianopsia — a condition that limited her to 50 percent of the total visual field in each eye. She was unable to see objects to the left line of center […]
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