The 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 FallsEmployer Fails to Show Injury “Fell” Within “Access Doctrine” Exception to Going and Coming Rule A Texas appellate court recently held that an employer—the City of Corpus Christi—failed to show...
Texas Employee’s Tort Action for Fall in Parking Lot Injury May Move Forward Texas Employee’s Tort Action for Fall in Parking Lot Injury May Move Forward45-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 GarageInjuries Sustained in Nearby Parking Lot Were Compensable Where an Ohio data entry worker had clocked out for lunch, exited the building, and fell in a nearby parking lot, breaking...
Ohio’s “Zone of Employment” Rule Protects Worker Who Clocked Out for Lunch Ohio’s “Zone of Employment” Rule Protects Worker Who Clocked Out for LunchAn 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 CompensableThe manager of a Tennessee mattress store, who alleged that she sustained a psychological injury (“PTSD”) when she pursued two persons into the employer’s store parking lot after they had...
Tennessee Mattress Store Manager Prevails in PTSD Claim After Encounter with Purse Snatching Customers Tennessee Mattress Store Manager Prevails in PTSD Claim After Encounter with Purse Snatching CustomersIllustrating the significant deference given to the Commission’s factual findings, an Arkansas appellate court recently affirmed the denial of benefits to an employee who sustained injuries when he slipped and...
Arkansas: Fall in Company Parking Lot While Returning Lunch Box is Not Compensable Arkansas: Fall in Company Parking Lot While Returning Lunch Box is Not Compensable