Does Workers’ Compensation Cover Injury Caused by Performing a ‘Common Courtesy’?

An employee has been awarded workers’ compensation benefits after being injured when performing a “common courtesy” even though her employer maintains what she did was outside the course and scope of her employment.The Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission (VWCC) has affirmed benefits for an Abbott Laboratories employee who suffered a cervical spine injury at the company’s national sales conference when she attempted to move her manager’s heavy backpack to another table where she and her team colleagues ...