Employee injures his ankle playing volleyball at a company picnic. Not compensable. Employee injures her ankle dancing at the company Christmas party. Compensable. Say what? Injuries that occur during social activities hinge not on the injury, itself, but the voluntariness of the activity the injury occurred during. There are a set of guideposts to follow when receiving these fact patterns, and this episode will cover all of them.
Employee injures his ankle playing volleyball at a company picnic. Not compensable. Employee injures her ankle dancing at the company Christmas party. Compensable. Say what? Injuries that occur during social activities hinge not on the injury, itself, but the voluntariness of the activity the injury occurred during. There are a set of guideposts to follow when receiving these fact patterns, and this episode will cover all of them.