Supreme Court of Missouri· 2/9/1999

Drewes v. Trans World Airlines, Inc.

Citations

984 S.W.2d 512
1999 Mo. LEXIS 7
1999 WL 62770

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holding that the employee’s act of carrying her lunch to the table to eat her meal was a “substantial factor” in causing her injury
holding that employee’s injury, which she sustained while on an unpaid lunch break on or about her employer’s premises, was incidental to her employment as contemplated by § 287.020.3(1) RSMo (1994)
finding that “[n]ecessarily, [the employee] was not ‘equally exposed’ outside of her employment to the risk of falling during her lunch break”
finding that “[nJecessarily, [the employee] was not ‘equally exposed’ outside of her employment to the risk of falling during her lunch break”
employee fell in cafeteria owned by separate entity in same building as her employer's office while she was on lunch break and walking to a table with her lunch
employee fell in cafeteria owned by separate entity in same building as her employer’s office while she was on lunch break and walking to a table with her lunch

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Judges: Benton, Price, White, Holstein, Wolff, Shrum, Covington, Limbaugh

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