Hansen v. State Accident Insurance Fund

Claimant appeals from an order of the circuit court, affirming both the referee and the Workmen’s Compensation Board, denying him compensation for a spinal injury he received while participating in a "freestyle” ski contest — involving among other things aerial or jumping maneuvers — on the ground that at the time he was injured claimant was not acting "in the course of and scope of his employment” as a part-time ski instructor.1

There exists no formula, framed in exact and precise terms, upon which we may rely in order to determine whether under the peculiar circumstances of any given case an…