Worker's Car Crash Wasn't Result of Deliberate Intent to Hurt Himself

A divided Mississippi Court of Appeals ruled that a worker's car accident while driving a company truck was compensable and that his act of driving without his lights or seatbelt, after a night of poor rest and having taken pain medication, didn't evince an intent to injure himself. Case: Linde Gas v. Edmonds, No. 2013-WC-01942-COA, 09/30/2014, published. Facts: Larry Edmonds worked for Linde Gas as an instrumentation technician. He was responsible for maintaining the instruments at the Linde Gas plant that supplied oxygen, nitrogen and argon, through a pipeline to the steel pla...