Again indicating that the state utilized the “actual risk” test, a Virginia appellate court held that injuries sustained by a financial officer as he tripped on concrete steps at his employer’s premises, did not arise out and in the course of the employment. The...
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...
In a divided decision, the Court of Appeals of Mississippi held that a pipefitter, who sustained severe injuries when he fell some 25 feet from the top of a gum tree, was engaged in inappropriate horseplay at the time of the injury, such that the injury did not...
The state’s Workers’ Compensation Commission did not err when it found that an employee’s alleged injury did not arise out of his employment where it appeared the employee fell from a rolling chair when he reached for a pen that he had dropped on the floor and...
Arkansas’ “arising out of and in the course of the employment” rule is one of the narrowest of any states. Generally, a compensable injury does not include an injury that was inflicted on the employee “at a time when employment services were not being performed...
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