A worker who injured his knee falling on a snowy adjacent parking lot while leaving work was awarded benefits. Scholastic v David Viley, 2014 Mo App. Lexis 1207 (Lexis Advance), 2014 Mo App. Lexis 1207 (lexis.com), WD 77546 (Oct. 28, 2014) This case is... Read More

An Arkansas court ruled that an ironworker sustained a compensable injury when he slipped on ice while walking from the main gate of a construction site to his employer’s work trailer prior to clocking in. The employer argued that the ironworker... Read More

A divided Supreme Court of Oklahoma held that a university employee sustained injuries arising out of and in the course of her employment when she slipped and fell on ice in a campus parking lot where she had been instructed to park. The majority found... Read More

A Missouri appellate court affirmed an award of workers’ compensation benefits to an employee who sustained a severe knee injury when he slipped and fell on ice and snow in a parking lot near his employer’s premises. Acknowledging that the... Read More

A 48-year old car salesman who fell on the employer's lot after he was fired can collect comp benefits in Missouri because his injury occurred within a reasonable time after his termination. The Commission recently awarded nearly $400,000. Hartman... Read More

The Supreme Court of Kentucky, citing one of its earlier decisions that extensively quoted Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law regarding the going and coming rule, recently affirmed a decision by an ALJ, the Board, and the state’s Court... Read More

Larson's Spotlight on Tort Action Against Partnership, Attorney's Fee, Hotel Bathroom Injury, Slip and Fall, and Medicare Secondary Payer Act. Larson's surveys the latest case developments that you need to know about. Thomas A. Robinson, the... Read More