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Workers' Compensation And Company Sponsored Events: The High Cost Of Employee Morale, Christine L. Sommer

Cleveland State Law Review

This note explores an employer's potential liability when a worker is injured at a company sponsored event. Part two briefly outlines the history of workers' compensation law placing particular emphasis on the public policies that gave rise to implementation of the workers' compensation system. Part three analyzes workers' compensation statutes, examines the tests used to determine compensability and discusses the effect of exclusive remedy provisions on a worker's tort recovery. The last section discusses the methods used to determine whether injury sustained at a company sponsored event falls within workers' compensation statutes. It asks whether workers' compensation statutes are equipped …