Kalama Services, Inc Cigna Property and Casualty Insurance Company v. Director, Office of Workers Compensation Programs

How courts have described this case

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

• reasoning that since Johnston Atoll is a small, remote island with few recreational activities, “horseplay of the type that occurred here is a foreseeable incident of one’s employment on the atoll”
• describing Johnston Atoll as a “small, remote island ... which offers residents few recreational opportunities”
• contrasting cases that have applied the zone of special danger doctrine with cases that have not applied the zone of special danger doctrine based on different factual circumstances
• “Congress passed the Defense Base Act in order to provide workers’ compensation coverage for certain classes of employees working outside the continental United States.”
• “[C]laimant may rebut the employer’s evidence of suitable alternative employment with evidence showing a diligent but unsuccessful search for such employment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).