New Jersey Statutes Title 34. Labor and Workmen's Compensation 34 § 15-7.3

a. For any cardiovascular or cerebrovascular injury or death which occurs to an individual covered by subsection b. of this section while that individual is engaged in a response to an emergency, there shall be a rebuttable presumption that the response to the emergency included a work effort sufficient to cause injury or death and thus compensable under R.S. 34:15-1 et seq., if that injury or death occurs while the individual is responding to or, in the case of paid, part-paid, or volunteer firefighters, members of a volunteer first aid or rescue squad, or career emergency medical technicians or paramedics, remediating from a law enforcement, public safety or medical emergency as defined in subsection c. of this section.

b. This section shall apply to:

c. As used in this section:

“lawLaw enforcement, public safety or medical emergency” means any combination of circumstances requiring immediate action to prevent the loss of human life, the destruction of property, or the violation of the criminal laws of this State or its political subdivisions, and includes, but is not limited to, the suppression of a fire, a firemanic drill, the apprehension of a criminal, or medical and rescue service.

“Remediating from” means leaving an emergency in a reasonable period of time, not to exceed 24 hours from the end of the emergency, to carry out post-incident agency protocols and decompression including measures such as critical incident stress debriefings.

d. The presumption of compensability pursuant to subsection a. of this section shall be rebuttable by use of causal factors such as horseplay, skylarking, self-infliction, voluntary intoxication, and illicit drug use. Rebuttal of the presumption based upon medical causation shall require clear and convincing medical evidence that the work experience was not a substantial cause of the cardiovascular or cerebrovascular injury.