Clements v. Aramark Corp.

Summary

The court held that an idiopathic fall onto a level surface is not compensable merely because it occurs during employment. Compensation requires evidence that a condition of the employment contributed to the injury by increasing the risk or severity of the fall; because the plaintiff identified no such contribution and abandoned that theory on appeal, her injury did not arise out of her employment. The court overruled its prior contrary reasoning and reversed the Appellate Court with instructions to affirm the compensation board.