SC20167 - Clements v. Aramark Corp. ("This certified appeal requires us to decide whether injuries
that an employee sustains in the course of her employment also arise out of
that employment, and therefore are compensable under the Workers’ Compensation
Act (act), General Statutes § 31-275 et seq., when the injuries result from an
idiopathic fall from a standing position onto a level floor… Although we acknowledge
that, under our reasoning in Savage, the Appellate Court was required to reach
the result that it did, we now overrule Savage insofar as it concluded that an
employee is entitled to compensation as a matter of law when, during the course
of his or her employment, the employee is injured due to an idiopathic fall
onto a level floor. In light of that determination, we further conclude that
the decision of the board in the present case affirming the decision of the
commissioner must be affirmed. Accordingly we are constrained to reverse the
judgment of the Appellate Court.")