Court: New Jersey Woman Can Pursue Perfume Lawsuit

January 12, 2009

  • January 12, 2009 at 10:34 am
    staff underwriter says:
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    New question on the application is necessary. “Are employees permitted to apply/wear/dispense perfume in the course of employment?”

  • January 12, 2009 at 11:33 am
    Odie says:
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    What a joke!!!

  • January 12, 2009 at 12:21 pm
    matt says:
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    What is wrong? This New Jersey nursing home worker was clearly the victim here.

    I don’t know a single doctor that would say that this 64 year old employee is on oxygen tank respirators and unable to work because she smoked 20 cigarettes a day for over 40 years.

    Perfume is a dangerous inhalant. This is why three exposures to perfume in one day caused a respiratory ailment that even smoking 300,000 cigarettes could not cause.

    In case you didn’t already guess this is sarcasm.

  • January 12, 2009 at 1:28 am
    U B Wrong says:
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    That is just wrong

  • January 12, 2009 at 1:33 am
    Democrat says:
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    Change is coming!!

  • January 12, 2009 at 1:35 am
    Allergy says:
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    Perfume can be dangerous to your health. I worked with a gal who was so allergic to citrus that someones perfume with citrus in it could send her into an attack, no matter is was sprayed in her presence or not. I’m just saying —– I agree that this woman’s problems are from smoking – I wonder if she quit?

  • January 12, 2009 at 1:47 am
    Debby says:
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    Well, she is 64 years old, probably can’t get affordable health insurance since she has a cronic lung condition, so she can’t retire. Probably had to look at her options, and hey, why not Work Comp??? I’m so sure that if she didn’t have a cronic lung condition, the perfume still would have put her in the hospital for a month. NOT!

  • January 12, 2009 at 1:50 am
    Missouri Insurance Dweeb says:
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    Hey, if an attorney can collect from the 2nd Injury Fund from picking up his briefcase, you know they’ll give her this. Too bad– in both situations.

  • January 12, 2009 at 2:00 am
    Plymn says:
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    Trying to look at this objectively.

    The situation is a 64 year old employee is on oxygen tank respirators and now unable to work.

    The argument is her disability is due to a couple of squirts of perfume not because she smoked 20 cigarettes a day for over 40 years.

    The perfume squirts don’t pass the smell test. (Sorry)

  • January 12, 2009 at 2:01 am
    Adirondacker says:
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    So I’m trying to replay this scenario in my mind… why would someone spray on perfume three separate times within one day? I’m guessing maybe the lady spraying the perfume was hoping some of it landed on the wheezing cigarette-smoking co-worker?

    Goodness, this lawsuit opens all kinds of possibilities… I wonder if I can submit a PIP claim the next time I step into a NYC cab… talk about stinky!



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