High Court Remands AOE Determination for Unobserved Fall

The Ohio Supreme Court said a trial court used the wrong standard to determine that a worker’s unobserved fall arose out of employment and remanded the case for additional proceedings. The high court said the trial court relied only on a non-exhaustive list of factors from a 1981 decision for deciding compensability but failed to apply the analysis from a 1988 decision for unexplained slip-and-fall injuries. Nancy Vega worked as a case manager for Grafton Correctional Institution. On April 26, 2022, she slipped while walking down the hall to use a copy machine, fell into a wall and was...