Jordan v. St. Louis County Police Department

How courts have described this case

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

• awarding benefits where off-duty officer was killed during commission of a felony while officer was shopping, when shooter saw officer’s badge in his wallet
• off-duty police officer’s death “during commission of a felony” was “natural and rational consequence of a hazard or risk inherent in his employment”
• any doubt under the Workers’ Compensation Law as to an employee’s right to compensation must be resolved in favor of the employee
• “In a sense, a police officer is never off-duty.”
• “In a sense, a police officer is never off-duty.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).