On 22 February 2013 the French police were called to a home where a certain Monsieur Xavier had died.
Deaths are an everyday occurrence but this case has kept the courts busy ever since.
At the time of his death, Xavier worked as a safety technician for the French company TSO and was on a business trip.
A few months later, health insurer Hainaut told the company that it considered Xavier's death a workplace accident, since French employers are responsible for accidents that occur during a business trip.
However, TSO contested this.
The reason?
It turns out that Xavier had died from a cardiac arrest while having sex with what the court was told was "a perfect stranger" he had met while travelling on business.
What has kept the courts busy for these intervening years is in deciding whether his employer has responsibility for him at every moment on the business trip even when he is not engaged in work.
TSO's lawyers argued that he had knowingly interrupted his mission for a reason solely dictated by his personal interest, independent of his job and that, as a result, it should not be liable.
Hainaut's lawyer, meanwhile, argued that "sexual intercourse is a matter of everyday life, like taking a shower or a meal"
The appeal court judges sided with the insurer, saying that "even though sexual intercourse happened in a place other than the hotel room which TSO had booked for him this did not, in itself, mean that the employee had placed himself outside the sphere of the authority of the employer".
For many business travellers, sex is a coping strategy with the rigours of being away from home.
Our chart (below) looks back at a 2015 survey of 1,000 business travellers by travel risk company On Call International.
This could set a worrying precedent for companies. Does this now mean that they must give their employees strict instructions not to have sex with strangers while they are travelling? Or that if they do, then it should not be too frenetic in case it triggers a heart attack?
Perhaps the answer is to encourage employees to have their extramarital affairs during their lunch breaks rather than while away on business.
Jokes aside, it is an interesting case.
On the one hand, companies should be looking at the pressures on business travellers that encourage them to exhibit such behaviour while they are on business trips. The same survey found that 27 percent of travellers indulge in binge drinking while on trips. Perhaps we need to look at well-being on the road in far more detail.
Companies also routinely ask their employees to travel outside normal working hours in order to be with a client ready for a meeting the next morning or after a weekend. Should duty of care extend to those periods as well?