Split Supreme Court Says Worker's Injuries Qualified as Accidental

A divided Hawaii Supreme Court ruled that a government employee had suffered an incapacitating injury by way of “accident” from the overuse of her arm to type the reports required for a public health education program. Case: Pasco v. Board of Trustees of the Employees' Retirement System, No. SCWC-13-0003629, 05/22/2018. Facts: Kimberly A. Pasco worked for the Hawaii Department of Health. In 2006, she helped start a nutrition program on Kauai. The program was later expanded to Maui and the Big Island. Pasco did not have a permanent work station, so she typed voluminous progra...