Maryland's highest court, on June 6th, issued an opinion striking the state's restriction that accidental workplace injuries must result from unusual activities to be compensable under the state's Workers' Compensation Act. In Vernell Harris vs. Board of Education of Howard County (No. 43, 06/06/03) a 58-year old kitchen and laundry assistant injured her back at work in 1999 after she and a co-worker dragged a 45-pound box of detergent, which was contaminated with cockroaches, outside a high school's laundry area to prevent the insects from contaminating the school's food service area. After r...
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