The Industrial Commission of the State of Idaho held that a claim reported only after the claimant returned from a wild trip to Las Vegas is not compensable.
In Tipton v. Boykin Hotel Properties, No. IC 03-523543, 06/24/2005, Annette Tipton, a banquet server, claimed she was injured while lifting a large serving tray in mid-September 2003. Tipton, however, did not report her injury to her employer, who asserted that "it was not until [she] returned from a trip to Las Vegas where she got 'drunk and stupid' and rode roller coasters that she first reported her accident as industrial and ever ...
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