Washington v. Anderson Wholesale

JOPLIN, J.:

¶ 1 Petitioner Tomika Washington (Claimant) seeks review of an order of the trial court denying her compensation for asserted accidental personal injury to hands arising out of and in the course of the employment with Respondent Anderson Wholesale (Employer). In this proceeding, Claimant asserts the trial court erred as a matter of both fact and law in denying the claim, all evidence clearly demonstrating a compensable job-related “accidental injury.”

¶2 Claimant and a co-employee became embroiled in a workplace altercation in which Claimant averred she was the victim and the…