Vaile v. City of Independence

How courts have described this case

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

• neutral risks require the application of the increased-risk test and mixed risks require proof of both medical and legal causation
• “Even if the risk faced by the employee is not qualitatively peculiar to the environment, the injury may be compensable if the employee faces an increased quantity of a risk.”
• \There can be no question that the injurious effects of falling asleep were increased by the environment in which the petitioner found himself at the time he fell asleep -- behind the wheel of a moving truck.\
• recounting our decision in Margeson

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).