Being drunk will likely kill your case
We recently posted about a client that got benefits for an accident on a mechanical bull while a traveling employee. A reader was wondering if she would have recovered had she been drunk?
In general, being under the influence of drugs or alcohol makes your case not compensable. The reasoning is that it's not reasonably foreseeable by an employer that one of their employees will be intoxicated while on the clock.
Now it's probably also not reasonably foreseeable that an employee will get hurt riding a mechanical bull or falling into a volcano (see our previous post), but we really think that the Courts in Illinois wanted to draw a line somewhere and rightly or wrongly they drew it at being intoxicated.
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