Hannen v. Ewalt

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• assuming without deciding that workplace escalator posed neutral risk of falling
• assuming without deciding that workplace escalator posed neutral risk of falling
• “injuries that occur at the workplace as a result of a neutral risk arise out of the employment”
• “injuries that occur at the workplace as a result of a neutral risk arise out of the employment”
• break-time injury covered when employee fell on WMATA escalator at the Metro station where she was assigned to work
• “[S]o narrow an approach would lead to absurd consequences, because many workplace injuries occur in circumstances in which the employer did not dictate the precise location of the employee at the precise time of the injury.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).