Dependable Messenger, Inc. v. Industrial Commission

OPINION

EHRLICH, Presiding Judge.

This is a review of an Industrial Commission award for a compensable claim. John Jordan instigated a fight over a parking space that he knew he had no right to have. The administrative law judge (“A.L.J.”) decided that Jordan’s resulting injury was compensable because the altercation had occurred on his employer’s premises during working hours and was not motivated by any animosity that he had imported to the workplace. We conclude, however, that the facts compel the contrary conclusion that the injury neither arose out of nor occurred in the course of Jordan’s…