Wunschel v. City of Jersey City

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an employee is not bound by a finding of employment status between the employer and coemployee
• concluding the filing of a workers’ compensation petition did not demonstrate substantial compliance because it did not give notice of intention to assert wrongful death claim against public entity
• stating the \joint 17 A-1156-14T4 employer doctrine\ may be used to establish \employment status for the purposes of workers' compensation\
• stating, “Central to the application of the doctrine [of collateral estoppel] is that the party against whom the doctrine is to be invoked must have been party to or privy to the prior proceedings.”
• stating, “Central to the application of the doctrine [of collateral estoppel] is that the party against whom the doctrine is to be invoked must have been party to or privy to the prior proceedings.”
• employee not bound by finding of employment status as to co-employee when employer’s interest may be opposed to employee’s

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).