Really not sure what to say about this.....lol
Woman to get workers compensation after being injured while having sex on work trip
An Australian public servant will receive compensation for injuries she sustained while having “hard” sex in a motel room on a business trip.
Women wants workers comp
Her claim was rejected at first by ComCare, the workers’ compensation insurer for the Australian Commonwealth government, but she rejected the ruling, challenging the decision in the country’s federal court.
"If the applicant had been injured while playing a game of cards in her motel room she would have been entitled to compensation, even though it could not be said that her employer induced or encouraged her to engage in such an activity," said Justice John Nicholas, according to the BBC.
Nicholas ordered the government to pay her legal costs.
The woman, whose name and place of work are protected under a publication ban, was hit by a glass light fitting above her bed while having sex in a New South Wales motel room in 2007.
Her partner said they were “going hard,” in his statement to the court, reported the Harold Sun.
“I do not know if we bumped the light or it just fell off,” he said. “I think she was on her back when it happened but I was not paying attention because we were rolling around.”
The woman, in her late 30s, claimed compensation for psychological and facial injuries. She said she hurt her nose, mouth, and tooth, and was suffering from depression and anxiety.
Andrew Berger, the laywer for ComCare, argued sex was not “an ordinary incident of an overnight stay like showering, sleeping or eating.”
Still, the federal judge said the lower courts had erred by saying the woman had to prove her injury was directly caused by an activity condoned by her employer.
In an email to the Star, Leo Grey, the woman’s lawyer, said the case hinged on a “narrow legal issue,” and was not about morality or humour.
“My client was actually quite significantly injured and emotionally traumatized,” he said, “both by her injury and the way it has been reported as a subject of fun, which for her it is not.”
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/a...r-being-injured-while-having-sex-on-work-trip
Woman to get workers compensation after being injured while having sex on work trip
An Australian public servant will receive compensation for injuries she sustained while having “hard” sex in a motel room on a business trip.
Women wants workers comp
Her claim was rejected at first by ComCare, the workers’ compensation insurer for the Australian Commonwealth government, but she rejected the ruling, challenging the decision in the country’s federal court.
"If the applicant had been injured while playing a game of cards in her motel room she would have been entitled to compensation, even though it could not be said that her employer induced or encouraged her to engage in such an activity," said Justice John Nicholas, according to the BBC.
Nicholas ordered the government to pay her legal costs.
The woman, whose name and place of work are protected under a publication ban, was hit by a glass light fitting above her bed while having sex in a New South Wales motel room in 2007.
Her partner said they were “going hard,” in his statement to the court, reported the Harold Sun.
“I do not know if we bumped the light or it just fell off,” he said. “I think she was on her back when it happened but I was not paying attention because we were rolling around.”
The woman, in her late 30s, claimed compensation for psychological and facial injuries. She said she hurt her nose, mouth, and tooth, and was suffering from depression and anxiety.
Andrew Berger, the laywer for ComCare, argued sex was not “an ordinary incident of an overnight stay like showering, sleeping or eating.”
Still, the federal judge said the lower courts had erred by saying the woman had to prove her injury was directly caused by an activity condoned by her employer.
In an email to the Star, Leo Grey, the woman’s lawyer, said the case hinged on a “narrow legal issue,” and was not about morality or humour.
“My client was actually quite significantly injured and emotionally traumatized,” he said, “both by her injury and the way it has been reported as a subject of fun, which for her it is not.”
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/a...r-being-injured-while-having-sex-on-work-trip
