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Drewes v. Trans World Airlines, Inc.

Citations

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

How courts have described this case

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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

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

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

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