Legal Opinion
Roller-Dick v. Centracare Health Sys.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Decided August 8, 2018No. A17-1816PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MCKEIG, Justice.
*375This workers' compensation case concerns an employee who fell down a set of stairs on her employer's premises and was injured as a result. The facts related to how and why she fell are undisputed. Thus, this case presents the purely legal question of whether her injury "arose out of" her employment. In answering that question, the workers' compensation judge and the Workers' Compensation Court of Appeals (WCCA) took opposing views of the "increased-risk" test we applied in Dykhoff v. Xcel Energy , 840 N.W.2d 821 (Minn. 2013).
Because we agree with the WCCA that Roller-Dick's…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Breimhorst v. BeckmanSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1949
- Hanson v. Robitshek-Schneider Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1941
- Nelson v. City of St. PaulSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1957
- Foley v. Honeywell, Inc.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1992
- Gibberd Ex Rel. Gibberd v. Control Data Corp.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1988
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