Employer Wasn't Entitled to Presumption That Worker's Drug Use Caused Accident

A divided Arkansas Court of Appeals upheld an award of benefits to a truck driver for an injury to his hand, finding that his employer was not entitled to a statutory presumption that his accident had been occasioned by the use of methamphetamine. Case: National Transit Staffing v. Norris, No. CV-17-479, 04/04/2018, published. Facts: Mark Norris worked for National Transit Staffing as a truck driver. In June 2015, National sent Norris to carry a load from a Van Buren nursery to St. Louis. Norris injured his left hand while at the nursery loading dock. He drove himself to Summit Hospital in ...