Richmond Newspapers, Inc. v. Hazelwood

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “goosing” did not arise out of the employment relationship and thus was not an injury covered by Virginia’s Workers’ Compensation Act
• holding that a supervisor’s sexual assault upon an employee did not arise out of the employment, where the supervisor’s actions were of a personal nature and not directed against the claimant as an employee or because of the employment
• finding that the assaultive behavior was motivated by “friendship” not any employment circumstance
• finding that when an employee grabbed a co-worker in the buttocks or genital areas, the claim was not barred under VWCA because the conduct was not fairly traceable to the employment as a contributing proximate cause
• involving a claim based upon the employer’s negligence in its hiring and retention of an unfit person in the work place

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).