Schutz v. SAIF Corp.

Claimant seeks judicial review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board in which the board affirmed employer’s denial of her claim for workers’ compensation benefits. Claimant suffered severe injuries in a car accident while driving home from a restaurant at which she had consumed a considerable amount of alcohol with another employee, whom she regarded as her supervisor. The board concluded that claimant’s injuries were noncompensable for several reasons, including that they did not arise out of her employment. We affirm.

We take the following facts from the board’s findings, which are…