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The Predator organization is totally pucked.
But I don’t understand why this wouldn’t be a WC claim. As written, the human bowling ball was invited to participate based on his position as a minor-league celebrity at the radio station. Seems like the station should have been named as a co-defendant if he were denied comp benefits.
The WC carrier would successfully deny as this would be an elective, outside-the-normal-scope-of-employment injury.
Not so. Several years ago, I broke my ankle playing in a company sponsored softball game associated with its 75th anniversary celebration. That injury was fully compensable through Worker’s Compensation.
And yet there are several articles on IJ alone where extra-curricular (so to speak) activities were found by the courts not to be covered under workers compensation.
I think what we have here are state-by-state differences in WC law. Some States do extend coverage for injuries arising out of “non-job” related injuries if the employee was working at the direction or guidance of the company, including time volunteered by the employee for the ‘greater good’ of the company.
Ridiculous! You have to know you could be hurt while being hurtled out of a slingshot across the rink on a sled into bowling balls. Where’s the assumption of risk?
I didn’t know there was halftime at hockey games. Wouldn’t it be third time since there are three periods? The writer of this article is a putz.
Technically, using your logic, wouldn’t it be “first / second time” and not thirdtime? There are only two intermissions in hockey; between first & second period and second & third period.
Check yourself before you call someone a putz.
I think Compman’s third time would be analogous to football’s halftime. At halftime, one half of the game is over so at third time, one third of the game would be over. And I guess that would make the second break two-thirds time.
But,since hockey players don’t do fractions (and apparently neither does Mikey), they just call it first and second intermission.
Right on putz. You explained it better than I could have. That was my exact reasoning behind “third time”
Give the guy a 2nd break here, all his suit is asking for is medical bills. It is probably his medical carrier subrogating by bring the suit against the team.
Can you imagine what the suit would be for if practice went as planned?
Where were the lawyers BEFORE these brain surgeons got together for this stunt?
Dumb and dumber for sure!
They should have made him sign a waiver.
Let’seview. You are going to use me as the object in a slingshot and there were no expectations of injuries. I would think the “expectation” would negate areas of coverage on the GL for certain