PYA/Monarch and Reliance Ins. Co. v. Harris

FITZPATRICK, Judge.

In this workers’ compensation case, PYA/Monarch and its insurer, Reliance Insurance Company (collectively referred to as employer), appeal the commission’s decision awarding benefits to Thomas Edward Harris (claimant). Employer argues that the commission erred in: (1) finding that claimant’s injury arose out of his employment by improperly extending the increased effects analysis used in idiopathic fall cases to an unexplained accident, and (2) determining that claimant’s injury caused his disability. We hold that claimant’s injury was a noncompensable, unexplained accident…