caseload of between 30 and 32 clients, all of whom suffer from a major mental illness.
She provides supportive counseling to help her clients remain in the community.
Claimant sees her clients both in their homes and at her place of work.
is via a locked door with a key code that is only available to Defendant’s employees.
is, which necessitates a code change.
caseworker or for an appointment.
at her home to protect them from theft at the office.
whereby Defendant mandated that the resource materials were to be kept on its premises.
credibly described as “a crisis,” she decided to return to her home to retrieve the book.
she needed to run an errand and she might be a little late for her 12:30 PM appointment.
At that point she left Defendant’s premises to retrieve the resource book from her home.
I find this testimony credible.
only a matter of minutes at her home before she fell.
13. Claimant knew she was hurt seriously, as she could not feel her right arm and shoulder.
the book or for safekeeping resource materials at her home.
1 Claimant was temporarily totally disabled from work from August 12, 2013 until the middle of November 2013.
The parties are not litigating either the reasonableness of Claimant’s medical treatment or her time out of work.
7. In this case, Claimant managed cases and delivered direct services to Defendant’s clients.
while fulfilling the duties of her employment contract. Miller, supra.
who are engaged in a special errand or business trip at the time of their injuries. 1 Lex K.
Assn., Opinion No. 19-01WC (June 5, 2001); Larson’s, supra at Chapter 17, p. 17-1.
(4) The degree to which the deviation caused the injury.
New England, Opinion No. 08-11WC (April 29, 2011).
to her deck. In terms of both time and geography, I conclude that it was not substantial.
approval in Estate of Rollins, supra.
16. Defendant next asserts that Claimant’s injuries did not arise out of her employment.
proximate or direct cause, but rather as an expression of origin, source or contribution.
employment and his or her position at work. Shaw, supra.
found it necessary to retrieve a book from home in order to share it with a client in crisis.
with her dog, her activities would not have merited workers’ compensation coverage.
consider her subsequent injury as having arisen out of her employment.
DATED at Montpelier, Vermont this 7th day of August 2014.