A man who died after having sex with a woman he met on a working trip was the victim of a professional accident and his employer is responsible, a French court has ruled.
The decision by appeal court judges in Paris stretches further the concept of a workplace accident in a country that gives generous compensation to dependants of staff who die on the job.
Xavier X, whose surname was not released, was a technician working in the Loiret département in central France, on assignment for his employer, TSO, a railway construction company based in an eastern Paris suburb. On a night in February 2013, he was found dead after a heart attack in his hotel room in Meung-sur-Loire shortly after having sex with a