Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. v. Zachery

1. Under the workmen's compensation act an injury “ ‘arises out of’ the employment, when there is apparent to the rational mind, upon consideration of all the circumstances, a causal connection between the conditions under which the work is required to be performed and the resulting injury. Under this test, if the injury can be seen to have followed as a natural incident of the work, and to have been contemplated by a reasonable person familiar with the whole situation as a result of the exposure occasioned by the nature of the employment, ’ then it arises ‘out of’ the employment. But it…