After I stopped laughing at “flipping her into the air at an office party,” which calls to mind the disco scene in Airplane!, I started wondering why the dancing had to factor into it. Because she didn’t want to, or couldn’t, charge him with assault or whatever it would be when you “grab [someone] by the forearms and [toss] them in the air”? As in, it’s reasonable that he wouldn’t do that if they hadn’t been dancing, so he was negligent in his dancing.
Just sounds odd, that’s all. I never thought of dancing as such a heavy responsibility.
From the article I read, the woman was at a mandatory after-hours employees party. They were dancing in a group, not as a couple, her boss just suddenly grabbed her arms and flipped her into the air, and she fractured her skull on the floor.
Hardly the same thing as dancing the jitterbug with a “dance partner” with whom you’ve been practicing. Looks like she’s got a decent civil case there. Employees were required to attend, her boss grabbed her without warning. It’s not like she went into a mosh pit where there is some kind of assumption of risk.
What made me laugh in the article I read was where she said: “I fell hard enough, you could hear the impact of me hitting the floor over the sound from the jukebox.”
All I could think was, “Well, sure. You could hear the impact over the jukebox.”