An employee who claims he injured his knee while swinging a club during an employer-sponsored TopGolf event has failed to qualify for workers’ compensation benefits.
The Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission recently upheld the denial of benefits for the injured employee by a deputy commissioner. The panel found that the employee failed to carry his burden of proof that he sustained an injury by accident arising out of and in the course of his employment.
While the employee claimed to have mentioned the injury to his supervisor the day of the event and two more times