Abstract
New Jersey's Merit System Board has jurisdiction to reject candidates for physical inability to perform the job. It also has jurisdiction to adjudicate cases involving employees who seek leave with pay caused by on-the-job injuries. Some of these Board decisions are extremely complex for lawyers to decide because of the technical medical issues and theories. To assure the maximum feasible expertise in deciding these cases, the Board established a Medical Examiners Panel. This article describes the Panel's function, composition and procedures. The article then describes some of the interesting cases which the Panel has considered in the medical fields of audiology, cardiology, orthopedics, hematology and ophthalmology.
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