Many employers offer flu shots and other inoculations to employees on company premises during work hours. Complications from flu shots are very rare but the Centers for Disease Control have noted that about one in 100,000 people who get a flu shot will develop Guillain-Barre syndrome, which is a debilitating nerve disorder. There are also rare cases of life threatening allergic reactions, and people over 65 are generally at greater risk due to the prevalence of other medical conditions, such as blood, heart, lung, kidney or liver disorders. (more…)

Since the legislative change in 1979 to substitute a premises rule for the going-and-coming rule, there have been many attempts to expand the “special mission” exception. The general rule is that only injuries on employer-owned or maintained premises are covered. One big exception involves injuries that emanate from the performance of special missions. That latest attempt to prove a special mission comes from Delle Donne v. Shiki Japanese Steakhouse of Middletown, A-1919-10T1 (App. Div. 2011). (more…)

John Gioia worked for Herr Foods as a delivery person. He injured his right ankle stepping from his delivery truck on November 23, 2007. He began authorized treatment right away and underwent an MRI one month later which revealed an avulsion fracture and sprain of the deltoid ligaments. (more…)