May 19, 2021
10:22 am
Pepsi Bottling Co. must reimburse a onetime employee for his work injury-related medical cannabis costs, a panel of New Jersey Appellate Division judges found May 11.
Judges Mitchel Ostrer, Allison Accurso and Catherine Enright upheld a worker’s compensation court decision that former employee Brian Calmon’s medical cannabis be paid for by Pepsi, relying on the decision on the New Jersey Supreme Court’s recent Hager v. M&K Construction case.
In Hager v. M&K Construction, the Supreme Court unanimously said on April 13 that M&K was responsible for former employee Vincent Hager’s medical cannabis costs. Hager was injured on the job more than 20 years ago when a truck on a job site dumped a load of concrete onto him, resulting in chronic pain.
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By John Heinis/Hudson County View
Back on September 3rd of last year, the East Newark Board of Education voted 3-2 authorizing the superintendent of schools and board secretary to draft a ballot question, interpretative statement, and resolution to reclassify the school district from Type I to Type II.
Type I districts have appointed school boards, while Type II districts have elected board of education trustees.
“The Clerk rejected the question as untimely based on Executive Order 177 … which shortened the deadline to submit public questions to August 31 in order ‘[t]o allow enough