The mere gratuitous furnishing of transportation by the employer to the employee as an accommodation, and not as an integral part of the contract of employment, does not, by itself,...
Provision of Company Vehicle to Texas Employee Does Not Necessarily Bring Commute Within Employment Provision of Company Vehicle to Texas Employee Does Not Necessarily Bring Commute Within EmploymentThe Supreme Court of Utah affirmed a finding by the state’s Labor Commission that an employee’s injuries sustained in an unexplained fall in a parking lot adjacent to the employer’s...
Utah High Court Comes Close to Adopting Positional Risk for Unexplained Falls Utah High Court Comes Close to Adopting Positional Risk for Unexplained FallsThe provision by an employer of a company-owned vehicle was insufficient to establish a work-connection between an employee’s fatal vehicle accident and the employment, held a Texas appellate court recently...
Provision of Vehicle to Employee Not Controlling Factor in Texas Death Benefits Case Provision of Vehicle to Employee Not Controlling Factor in Texas Death Benefits CaseQuoting Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law, § 21.02, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals vacated a decision of the D.C.’s Compensation Review Board (CRB) that had denied workers’ compensation benefits...
D.C. Subway Manager’s Injuries During Two-Hour Break Found Compensable D.C. Subway Manager’s Injuries During Two-Hour Break Found CompensableEmployee Had Clocked Out and Traveled Six Stops Toward His Home Where a New York City subway train cleaner clocked out at the end of his shift, left his assigned...
Assault on NYC Subway Employee Exiting Train Did Not Occur In Course of Employment Assault on NYC Subway Employee Exiting Train Did Not Occur In Course of Employment45-Year Employee Did Not Face Similar Risk in Non-Employment Life A Missouri appellate court affirmed a decision by the state’s Labor and Industrial Relations Commission that awarded workers’ compensation benefits...
Missouri Court Affirms Award for Fall in Employer’s Parking Garage Missouri Court Affirms Award for Fall in Employer’s Parking GarageAn employee, who sustained a shoulder injury as she reached out of her car window to scan her parking pass at a parking garage near her place of employment, did...
NY Employee’s Shoulder Injury While Scanning Parking Pass Not Compensable NY Employee’s Shoulder Injury While Scanning Parking Pass Not CompensableA Kansas roofer, who sustained catastrophic injuries when he was struck by a drunk driver as the roofer walked from a bar to his hotel at 2:20 a.m., could not...
Kansas Worker Gets No Benefits For Early Morning Injuries While Walking to Hotel Kansas Worker Gets No Benefits For Early Morning Injuries While Walking to HotelWhere a New York office worker sustained injuries when she tripped and fell while walking on a public sidewalk approximately 20 feet from the door to the building that contained...
20 Shades of Gray: NY Court Construes “Risks of Street Travel” Rule 20 Shades of Gray: NY Court Construes “Risks of Street Travel” RuleA Mississippi pipe fitter, who sustained five broken ribs and a spinal cord injury when he fell a distance of approximately 25 feet from the top of a gum tree...
Boys Will Be Boys: Winning Comp Claim Isn’t as Easy as Falling Out of a Tree Boys Will Be Boys: Winning Comp Claim Isn’t as Easy as Falling Out of a TreeAn attorney and shareholder of a law firm was appropriately denied workers’ compensation benefits in connection with a motorcycle accident that rendered him a quadriplegic, since his “rainmaking” activities was...
Wisconsin Lawyer’s Poker Playing and “Rainmaking” Insufficiently Connected to Employment to Support Serious Injury Claim from Motorcyle Accident Wisconsin Lawyer’s Poker Playing and “Rainmaking” Insufficiently Connected to Employment to Support Serious Injury Claim from Motorcyle AccidentSome years ago, my mentor, Arthur Larson, when commenting upon the issue of deviations within the workplace, wrote that courts generally recognize “that human beings do not run on tracks...
Pennsylvania: 5-Minute Deviation Defeated Workers’ Comp Claim Pennsylvania: 5-Minute Deviation Defeated Workers’ Comp Claim