Brooks v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

CRIST, Judge.

Plaintiffs, husband and wife, appeal the dismissal of their common law petition for damages for the stated reason the workers’ compensation law is the exclusive remedy for plaintiffs’ claim. We affirm.

Plaintiff-wife was an employee of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., at its store in St. Charles, Missouri. She went to that store during her non-working hours to purchase some items and to pick up her paycheck. After she left the store and was approaching her car in the parking lot, she slipped and fell on an accumulation of ice and snow.

Plaintiffs assert wife’s injuries did not arise out of…