Kloer v. Municipality of Las Vegas

OPINION

BIVINS, Judge.

Defendants appeal a judgment awarding worker’s compensation benefits for a heart attack brought on by claimant’s participation in a lunchtime basketball game. The sole issue is whether the recreational activity that triggered the heart attack arose out of and in the course of claimant’s employment. The trial court found it did. We hold that where, as here, the recreational activity occurs on the employer’s premises, and the employer knows of and acquiesces in the activity, an accidental injury resulting therefrom satisfies both the “arising out of and in the course of…