Worker Fails to Establish New Injury From Taser Incident

West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals ruled that a worker failed to establish that he suffered a discrete new injury as a result of a training incident in which he was subjected to being shocked with a Taser. Raun Bowers worked for West Virginia United Health System Inc. In May 2025, he told his supervisor he was injured during a Taser training incident. According to the supervisor’s report, Bowers was observing a Taser training class. Bowers was instructed to lie on his stomach in preparation for being shocked. After Bowers positioned himself and indicated he was ready, ...