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【Main Issues and Holdings】
In a case where B, an employee of Company A, was diagnosed with a ‘lateral malleolus fracture and ligament rupture of the right tarsal joint’ after his ankle was twisted when he slid into home plate from third base while participating in the Financial Services Commission Chairman Championship Cup, the financial group baseball league competition, as a member of the company's baseball team, and applied for medical treatment benefits to the Korea Workers' Compensation & Welfare Service, but the Service denied medical treatment on the grounds that B's accident cannot be recognized as an occupational accident, the court acknowledged that the above accident is an occupational accident as defined in Article 37(1)1 of the Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance Act, and therefore the above disposition is unlawful.
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