No Benefits for Worker who Got Hurt Helping Colleague with Box

A secretary who hurt herself while helping a colleague with a box of personal effects was not entitled to compensation for her injury because her kind gesture yielded no benefit to her employer, according to the West Virginia Supreme Court.While a majority of the court acknowledged that Georgette Morton's situation posed a "marginal case in terms of compensability and reasonable minds certainly may differ," four justices upheld the denial of her claim in a per curiam decision earlier this month."We find petitioner’s suggestion that helping to lift the box was beneficial to the employ...