Alcohol Intoxication Doesn't Bar Worker From Recovering for Catastrophic Injuries

The Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled that a worker’s alcohol intoxication did not bar him from recovering benefits for his injuries that left him paraplegic after he fell from a scaffold. Case: MMJ Masonry Inc. v. Silva, No. 2025-CA-0164-WC, 09/19/2025, unpublished. Facts and procedural history: Ruben Guerrero Silva filed a workers’ compensation claim against MMJ Masonry Inc. after he fell from a scaffold and became paralyzed by a spinal cord injury. MMJ contested the claim, contending that Silva was voluntarily intoxicated at the time of the alleged work injury based o...