Arizona Officer's Off-Duty Gunshot Wound Compensable, Court Rules

A Tucson police officer began "acting in the course of employment" when he responded to an unknown group of people who shot at him and his friends during an off-duty bicycling trip, according to an appellate court decision.  Division 2 of the Court of Appeals set aside the decision of an administrative law judge and determined that the claimant's gunshot wound was compensable in Lane v. Industrial Commission of Arizona, No. 2 CA-IC 2007-0007, 3/21/08. The appellate court  focused on the question of whether the claimant, Kelly Lane, had entered the course of employment after an un...