NJ S1923

Amends New Jersey workers' compensation law to bar employees from receiving benefits if they were intoxicated when an injury or death occurred

Creates a legal presumption that if an employee was intoxicated at the time of injury or death, the intoxication caused the incident

Expands grounds for denying workers' compensation to include cases where intoxication is a "material contributing factor" to injury or death, rather than requiring it to be the sole cause

Responds to the 2006 New Jersey Supreme Court case Tlumac v. High Bridge Stone, which held that intoxication must be the "sole cause" of an accident to deny compensation benefits

Covers both alcohol intoxication and unlawful use of controlled dangerous substances as defined under the New Jersey Controlled Dangerous Substances Act