In Yekaterinburg, a widow was awarded half a million rubles for her husband's death on his way to work.

      In Yekaterinburg, a widow won half a million rubles in court over her husband’s death on the way to work

      January 20, 2026

      In Yekaterinburg, a widow was able to prove in court that her husband’s death, which occurred on his way to work, was a workplace accident. This was reported by the United Press Service of the Courts of the Sverdlovsk Region.

      In February 2024, a master-consultant at LLC "Reginas" drove his personal car to his place of work on Vysotsky Street in Yekaterinburg. The man managed to park, but was unable to make it to work — he felt unwell and died suddenly. The cause of death was a heart attack.

      The widow filed a lawsuit with the Kirov District Court of Yekaterinburg against LLC "Reginas", asking to have her husband’s death recognized as an accident related to work and to obligate the employer to draw up a report in form N-1. The plaintiff also sought 3 million rubles in compensation for moral damage.

      According to the plaintiff, her husband’s death was the result of systematic violations by the employer: excessive overtime, requiring work on days off without proper accounting, and failing to conduct periodic medical examinations.

      The court found that because the death occurred while the employee was en route to the place of performance of his labor duties, under the meaning of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation this is grounds for investigating the incident as work-related, and partially granted the claim.

      The employer was ordered to prepare a fatal accident report in form N-1 and to pay the plaintiff 1.5 million rubles in compensation for moral damage.

      The defendant disagreed with the decision, arguing that the employee’s death did not occur on the employer’s premises or in company transport, and that the cause was a general illness unrelated to workplace factors. The decision was appealed by the defendant.

      The Judicial Collegium for Civil Cases of the Sverdlovsk Regional Court ordered a forensic medical examination in the case, which noted that a violation of the work-rest regime by itself is not a cause of sudden death. At the same time, the experts did not rule out an indirect (contributory) causal link between the employee’s sudden death and the violation of the work-rest regime.

      The appellate court agreed with the conclusions classifying the incident as work-related, since the employee was traveling to the workplace specified in the employment contract. As for compensation for moral damage, the appellate court considered the initial sum of 1.5 million rubles excessive. After assessing the employer’s degree of fault and other circumstances, the court reduced the compensation to 500,000 rubles. The decision entered into legal force.

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      death, employer, work, court, worker, compensation, ruble, Yekaterinburg, harm, accident, production, examinations

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