Course of Employment

Cases — February 21st through 27th, 2021

Public Employer ~ Employees Brownback v. King (U.S., February 25, 2021) (reversing the Sixth Circuit’s determination that the district court’s dismissal of King’s Federal Tort Claims Act claims did not trigger the 28 USC §1346(b) judgment bar to block his Bivens claims: The District Court’s order was a judgment on the merits of the FTCA […]

Cases — April 22nd through 28th, 2018

admin - May 11, 2018 - Course of Employment, Discrimination, Retaliation, Workers Compensation

Workers Compensation/Occupational Safety & DiseaseDavis v. Labor Commission (Utah Ct. App., April 26, 2018) (declining to disturb Commission determination that worker was not acting in the course of his employment at the time of his accident: discussion of the instrumentality exception to the “going and coming” rule—the truck was not an instrumentality of company’s business)Pittman v. Berryhill […]