Woman Injured During Sex On Business Trip Gets Workers' Compensation

An Australian civil servant won compensation for a sex injury sustained while on a business trip

An Australian female civil servant won compensation for an injury sustained while having sex on a business trip, the Sydney Morning Herald reports.

The Australian Federal Court ruled the woman was entitled to compensation claim for facial and psychological injuries suffered when a light fixture fell off the wall and on top of her in a motel room bed where she was having sex with a male friend.

The woman, who remains anonymous to protect her identity, suffered injuries to her nose, mouth and a tooth from the glass light hitting her face, according to the BBC.

The incident, which took place in November 2007, reverses a previous lower court decision.

As an employee for Australia's Commonwealth Government agency, the woman's lawyer argued
sex was an ordinary incident of life in a hotel room, reports NEWS.com.au.

Because the woman had been on a work trip, the judge made the decision to compensate her for the incident.

"If the applicant had been injured while playing a game of cards in her motel room, she would have been entitled to compensation," Justice John Nickolas said.

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Comments

[dave148109]

12:50 PM on 12/17/2012

I suppose government rules will now prohibit sex on business trips.

[Dean M Miller]

02:20 PM on 04/26/2012

yeah she deserved to win that workers comp, because she was in her room where she was supposed to be, what she does in that room is her own business

[rich3800]

01:05 PM on 04/26/2012

If the light fixture falls on my blow-up doll, puncturing it, would I get compensation? ;-) Puncture my lover...

[rich3800]

01:01 PM on 04/26/2012

Earthquake!!!

[Francois Bergeron]

04:27 AM on 04/26/2012

I need compensation for lack of sex.

[wilray]

07:59 AM on 04/25/2012

It was in the line of booty.

[MiMi LLawsonn]

06:11 AM on 04/23/2012

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-647077 Interesting story here...it seems like NC just denies worker's compensation claims....perhaps this is the AMERICAN WAY....

[Kenneth Bushway]

12:15 PM on 04/22/2012

Hp your headline is misleading. It says sex injury, I am sitting here thinking piercings got caught, etc.

Nope a bit of roof fell on her head. Not the comic relief I was hoping for.

[richodg5]

07:32 AM on 04/22/2012

Was part of her job to service her friend. Sounds like the fault was with the hotel and not Job related. Unless part of her job WAS to service her friend.

[novictim]

01:18 AM on 04/22/2012

Wider...wider...WIDER!

...oh please...that's not what I meant at all.

[Tim The Enchanter]

10:12 PM on 04/21/2012

Good god, sex has NOTHING to do with it! What's the point of bringing it in?

[empiresentry]

10:18 PM on 04/21/2012

unless it is part of her job description lol

[avicenna]

05:34 PM on 04/22/2012

My hypothesis is to make this non-event clickable as a switch and bate from a potentially entertaining tale to - the made-you-read-nothing-sucker story that it is.

[dlp7202]

08:06 AM on 04/21/2012

Unreal...
A very unusual twist to the "nanny" state definition!

[shlack123]

11:35 AM on 04/21/2012

Workers comp is a privately paid insurance benefit and not a government payout.

[dlp7202]

06:16 PM on 04/21/2012

True...I just cant see this being covered !

[rt1027]

05:32 AM on 04/21/2012

what a joke..........

[Gonzales Christina]

03:45 AM on 04/21/2012

Hmm..I don't really know what to think of this story. I'd love to be the woman, but then I'd hate to be her employer.

[jonathanexp]

12:30 AM on 04/21/2012

That must of been some rough sex