4.3.2.1 Horseplay

• Jurisdiction: Arizona

. Very few work places are immune from at least a bit of horseplay on the part of their employees. Whether compensation will be granted in these cases depends initially upon whether the injured employee is a participant or a non-participating victim. A non-participating victim of horseplay will receive compensation.^[83] It becomes somewhat more complicated when the person injured is a participant in the horseplay. In such cases, the question becomes whether, as a matter of law, the horseplay constituted an insubstantial deviation from authorized activities.^[84] To distinguish insubstantial deviations from actual abandonments of...