Workers' Compensation.

Practice point: This is the exclusive remedy when the hospital’s employee-plaintiff was injured when she tripped on a sidewalk adjacent to the emergency room, on her way back from the hospital’s human resources department to her own office, during working hours.

Student note: Even if the trip to human resources were purely personal, plaintiff was returning to her office for the purpose of resuming work, and was injured on property which her employer was responsible to maintain.

Case: Patricka v. City of New York, NY Slip Op 02163 (1st Dept. 2012).

Here is the decision.

Tomorrow’s issue: Bills of particulars.