Ogletree Deakins: New Jersey Appellate Division Holds Expert Medical Evidence Is Required to Prove Accommodations Offered Were Not Reasonable | Practical Law

Ogletree Deakins: New Jersey Appellate Division Holds Expert Medical Evidence Is Required to Prove Accommodations Offered Were Not Reasonable | Practical Law

This Law Firm Publication by Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. discusses a New Jersey Appellate Division opinion issued on January 2, 2015 holding that expert medical evidence is required to show that an employee’s disability required the employee’s preferred accommodation, or that the employer’s proposed accommodations were unreasonable. In Wojtkowiak v. New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission, the Appellate Division denied a failure to accommodate claim under the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination because the plaintiff did not make the requisite showing through expert evidence.

Ogletree Deakins: New Jersey Appellate Division Holds Expert Medical Evidence Is Required to Prove Accommodations Offered Were Not Reasonable

by Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.
Published on 12 Feb 2015New Jersey, United States
This Law Firm Publication by Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. discusses a New Jersey Appellate Division opinion issued on January 2, 2015 holding that expert medical evidence is required to show that an employee’s disability required the employee’s preferred accommodation, or that the employer’s proposed accommodations were unreasonable. In Wojtkowiak v. New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission, the Appellate Division denied a failure to accommodate claim under the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination because the plaintiff did not make the requisite showing through expert evidence.