Business woman injured in sex romp gets worker's comp
This case, in Australia, has been working its way through their court system for years, but finally the claimant has emerged triumphant.
While on a business trip, having sex on a hotel bed, a lighting fixture fell down on her head.
The technical legal question before the Australian court was whether her ill-fated mattress-merry-making was "an ordinary incident of an overnight stay". Well, who's to say?
In her favor, reportedly her employer had encouraged her to stay at this hotel with the shoddy light fixture.
The story sounds strange, since the guy in the case testified that he didn't know whether they had bumped the fixture or whether it had simply fallen. Really?
But what interests me is the "injury" claim itself. She suffered "facial and psychological" injuries. Most of the value of the claim had to be on the psych side, wherein she "later suffered depression and was unable to continue working for the government."
The nice thing about using a depression claim in your opening move,
is that it's hard to disprove.
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