Baarson v. Montana State Fund [8/16/04] 2004 MTWCC 60 Where an employee is murdered at work by her estranged husband with a history of assaultive behavior and who has a restraining order against him, the murder is not compensable unless the employer has taken actions which increase the risk of murder. An employer's affirmative actions taken to reduce the threat of assault do not create a duty to maintain those protections and the eliminations of the protections do not increase the inherent risk.