Phil A. Livesley Co. v. Russ

How courts have described this case

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• defining the scope of the unexplained fall doctrine in a case where there was no evidence to explain fall, and the claimant “was unable himself to offer a cause for the fall, however, and admitted that all he could remember of the incident was simply falling”
• “while risk and causation are important factors in a work-connection analysis, they are but two of many factors, and even when risk and causation are weak, compensation is not automatically foreclosed”
• “[W]here idiopathic causes for an unexplained fall have been eliminated, the inference arises that the fall was traceable to some ordinary risk, albeit unidentified, to which the employment premises exposed the employee.”
• categorizing employment risks as employment-related, per- sonal, or neutral
• categorizing employment risks as employment-related, personal, or neutral

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).