Sandberg v. JC PENNEY CO. INC.

How courts have described this case

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• holding employer’s claim that it lacked control over the risk of a dog in a work-at-home studio “is unwarranted because, although the employer may not have had control over claimant's dog, it had control over whether claimant worked away from the studio.”
• holding employer’s claim that it lacked control over the risk of a dog in a work-at-home studio “is unwarranted because, although the employer may not have had control over claimant's dog, it had control over whether claimant worked away from the studio.”
• “[T]o arise out of employment, an injury must result from a risk connected with the nature of the work or a risk connected with the work environment.”
• the claimant’s injury “resulted from a risk of her work environment” and, thus, “arose out of’ her employment where the claimant, who worked in her home, was injured when she tripped over her dog

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).