New Jersey employment law prohibits both disability discrimination and retaliation against an employee who objects to disability discrimination. A New Jersey appeals court examined both situations in the case of Algozzini vs DGMB Casino LLC, d/b/a Resorts Casino Hotel.
The Explosion
Bart Algozzini was director of slot operations at Resorts Casino Hotel for five years when he suffered second and third degree burns over seventy percent of his body during a boat fuel explosion on July 17, 2019. He was hospitalized for a month. He spent two weeks in a medically induced coma, was intubated, resuscitated after a cardiac arrest, and went through multiple skin graft surgeries. Thereafter he went to an inpatient rehabilitation, followed by outpatient physical therapy. He was discharged from outpatient physical therapy on January 30, 2020 but still needed to walk with a cane and use a shower chair.