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A French company has been found liable for the death of an employee who had a cardiac arrest while having sex with a stranger on a business trip.<\/p>\n
The man, who was identified in court documents only as Xavier, travelled in 2013 to the Loiret region in central France as a security technician for the rail engineering company TSO, New York Times reports<\/em>.<\/p>\n After work one night, he had sex with a woman at her house before returning to his hotel. He later died from a heart attack said to have been linked to the encounter.<\/p>\n A health insurance fund decided that the death resulted from a work-related accident, but TSO appealed, saying that the employee had interrupted his work trip for an adulterous relationship and had therefore acted outside the company\u2019s purview.<\/p>\n The Court of Appeal in Paris upheld the insurance fund\u2019s decision in a ruling released in May, but the case gained public attention only after the details were\u00a0published last week on LinkedIn\u00a0by a French lawyer, Sarah Balluet, who specializes in labour disputes.<\/p>\n An employee on a business trip is entitled to social protection \u201cover the whole time of his mission\u201d and regardless of the circumstances, it said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n