Because an employee’s duties at her employer’s “Family Fun Day” were essentially the same as her normal duties—she was a cook—her workers’ compensation claim for injuries sustained when she stepped in a small pothole, injuring her ankle, was not barred by a New...
An employer and various co-employees could not be held responsible in tort following the death of a co-employee who became intoxicated at a holiday party organized by a number of the co-employees, but not sponsored to any degree by the employer, held a New York...
Reiterating that to determine whether a company-sponsored recreational event occurs within the course and scope of one’s employment, Delaware has adopted the four-factor standard set forth in Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law [§ 22.04], but that for recreational...
An Illinois appellate court reversed a decision by a county circuit court and reinstated an award of benefits to a state middle school science teacher, who suffered a left forearm fracture while participating in an afterschool student/teacher basketball game in...
An employee-recognition event sponsored by the employer was not a “voluntary recreational program” within the meaning of Minn. Stat. § 176.021, subd. 9 (2014), when it took place during work hours and employees either had to attend the event or use limited vacation...
Oregon, like a number of other states, has a statutory provision that bars recovery of workers’ compensation benefits if the injury is sustained while the employee is engaged in recreational activity [see Or. Rev. Stat. § 656.005(7)(b)(B)]. An employer could not...
An employee who traveled from his home base in North Carolina to Dallas, Texas on a business trip did not sustain injuries arising out of and in the course of his employment when he was involved in an automobile accident as he made his way to meet his son, a Dallas...
In an interesting twist regarding the compensability of recreational injuries within the workers’ compensation context, a divided Supreme Court of South Carolina held that an employee's injuries sustained in a game of kickball arose out of and in the course...
Affirming a decision by the state's Industrial Commission, the Court of Appeals of North Carolina has denied benefits to two technical support analysts in the State Highway Patrol who sustained severe injuries in an automobile accident as they returned to the...
A Maryland appellate court, reversing a decision of the state’s Workers’ Compensation Commission that in turn had been affirmed by a state trial court, held compensable a claim filed by a traveling employee who sustained injuries when he slipped on some liquid...
Larson's Spotlight on Statutory Interpretation, Credit for Pension Benefits, Intentional Tort, and Substantially Certain Rule. Larson's surveys the latest case developments that you need to know about. Thomas A. Robinson, the staff writer for Larson's...