Typically, workers who are injured during their commute to work aren’t eligible for workers’ compensation benefits.
The New Jersey Supreme Court highlighted an exception to that rule in a unanimous decision Tuesday. The high court held that a pest control technician who was injured in a car crash while driving from home to his company’s office to pick up supplies suffered a compensable injury.
The opinion says “when an employee, with permission from an employer, is engaged in a work-related activity or an activity that r