Plummer v. Landmark Communications, Inc.

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• holding that injuries sustained by a female delivery driver when she was assaulted by a stranger as she waited in a dimly-lit parking lot arose from her employment, because her employer had notice of the dangerous condition and failed to protect her
• “[T]he requisite nexus in an assault case is supplied if there is a showing that the probability of assault was augmented ... because of the special liability to assault associated with the environment in which [the employee] must work.” (internal quotation marks omitted
• “[T]he requisite nexus in an assault case is supplied if there is a showing that the probability of assault was augmented ... because of the special liability to assault associated with the environment in which [the employee] must work.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• Injury suffered by route carrier of newspapers, who was shot by an unknown assailant at 2.00 a.m. while waiting to obtain her supply of newspapers for delivery, arose out of and in the course of her employment; hence her exclusive remedy for the injury was under the WCA

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).