Compensation claim based on serious medical

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An employee worked as a manager at an automotive service and repair shop. Typically, he spent at least 30 percent of each workday talking on the telephone with customers, other manegers, and vendors. At the time of his injury, there was a thunderstorm outside. The manager was talking on a corded telephone to another manager and leaning against a metal table. The telephone was struck by lightning. The manager filed a workers' compensation claim based on serious medical problems suffered due to the lightning strike. The employer contested the claim. What should the court decide? Why? (Ex parte Richard Byrom, 895 So. 2d 942 (Ala. 2004))

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