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A German
has ruled that sustaining an
while walking from your bedroom to your home office constitutes a
accident. The judges decided that walking a few metres from your
to your desk in another room in your house can be considered a
to work. As such, any injuries sustained on that short journey can be eligible for
payouts. The landmark ruling was made in a case where a man slipped while descending a
from his bedroom to his home office and fractured a vertebra. The court decided that the "first morning journey from bed to the home office is an insured work
". This decision could start a
to get similar
heard in courts.
