This question deals with a claims situation where a hotel's chef was injured at his employer's culinary awards celebration, and the claim's applicability to workers compensation coverage.

It is not uncommon to see workers compensation cases end up in court over whether the claimant's injuries both arose out of and in the course of their employment.

The Alaska Supreme Court made a crucial distinction concerning the proximate cause of workplace accidents when the justices unanimously affirmed a verdict awarding benefits to an injured employee who had admitted to being impaired while at work.

When there's a social function at work and an employee is injured, coverage becomes complicated.

When digging and carrying beer get you in trouble.

Though the thigh bone is connected to the hip bone, they are not the same thing.

It is not uncommon to see workers compensation cases end up in court over whether the claimant's injuries both arose out of and in the course of their employment.

The contracts between the injured truck driver's direct employer and the "livestock brokerage company" stated driver's employer was an independent contractor, but the nature of the complex agreements showed otherwise.

A workers compensation award does not have to be permanent or temporary in nature in order for the claimant to file a petition to reopen their claim based on a change in disability.

According to the court, a qualifying compensable injury had to arise from more than an employee's mere presence at the workplace.