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Workers Compensation: Compensable Injury – Work-Related Risk
Geri Dreiling//May 30, 2012
Even though a hospital billing representative was “on the clock” making a pot of coffee in the office kitchen when she twisted her ankle, fell off her shoes and fractured her pelvis, her injury was not compensable under workers compensation because there was no showing that her employment heightened her exposure to the injury.
Judgment is reversed.
Johme v. St. John’s Mercy Healthcare (MLW No. 63720/SC92113 – 17 pages) (Missouri Supreme Court, Russell, J.,) (Teitleman, J., dissenting) Appealed from the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission (Amanda Lee Miranda and Maurice D. Early, St. Louis, for appellant) (Ellen E. Morgan, St. Louis, for respondent) (Randy Charles Alberhasky, Springfield, for amicus Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys).
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