United States Fire Insurance Co. v. Biggs

REYNOLDS, Chief Justice.

Posed is this question: did a part-time law clerk, who was accidentally injured during his office hours preliminarily to repairing the roof of an apartment building owned by, and at the instance of, an associate of a one-owner law office, sustain the injury in the course of his employment within the meaning of the workers’ compensation coverage for the employees of the office? The trial court overruled the employer’s insurance carrier’s motion for an instructed verdict and submitted the cause to the jury. The jury found that the injury was sustained in the course of…