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Acknowledging that Ohio employs exceptions to the usual “going and coming rule,” including the “zone of employment” exception, in which the employer’s premises is deemed to include areas where the employer has control of...

Where a Georgia employee was injured in the break room in the process of taking her lunch outside during a scheduled lunch break, the state’s Board of Workers' Compensation did not err by applying the scheduled lunch break exception and by ruling...

Because of the operation of the going and coming rule, a Kentucky delivery person, who delivered food, utilizing his own private vehicle, to customers of his employer—a Papa John’s sandwich store—was not acting in the course and scope...

A Kansas roofer, who worked as part of a construction crew in Enid, Oklahoma, who stayed in a hotel there will he and others performed their roofing services and who was struck by a drunk driver as he crossed a street at 2:20 a.m. from a bar so as to...

In an unpublished decision, a New Jersey appellate court recently held that a casino’s security surveillance video supported the employee’s claim that at the time of a vehicular accident, in which she was injured, a small portion of her SUV...

Travel that is incident to the employment cannot be excluded from the course and scope of the employment by the ordinary going and coming rule, held a Maryland appellate court recently. Accordingly, it vacated a decision that had denied workers’...

Larson's Spotlight on Fraud, Attorney's Fees, Retaliatory Discharge, and Going and Coming. Larson's surveys the latest case developments that you need to know about. Thomas A. Robinson, the staff writer for Larson's Workers' Compensation...

In a case of first impression in Iowa, a state appellate court held that catching up on occasional work at home or completing tasks at home that could be completed at the employer’s premises is an insufficient basis to find that an employee had...

An employee's purpose in leaving work is relevant in deciding whether going and coming injuries arise out of employment; it is not, however, dispositive. The Supreme Court of Oklahoma accordingly reversed a decision of the state’s Court of Civil...

An Ohio home health aide who worked, at her employer’s direction, at the home of various clients and who sustained injuries in an auto accident as she traveled from one client’s home to that of another, was not as a matter of law a fixed-situs...

Here’s another batch of advanced postings for the February 2016 issue of Cal. Comp. Cases. Lexis.com and Lexis Advance subscribers can link to the case to read the complete headnotes and summaries. © Copyright 2016 LexisNexis. All rights...

A nurse, who sustained injuries when she fell in a pedestrian crossing as she returned to a cardiopulmonary resuscitation (“CPR”) training class, after retrieving forgotten class materials from her car, should recover workers’ compensation...

Where an employee worked as manager at one of the employer’s three donut shops, was occasionally required to respond to operational issues at the other two shops, and sustained fatal injuries in an vehicle accident as he traveled from his residence to...

A Florida Deputy Sheriff, who came upon a tractor-trailer parked in the right-of-way and jutting into his lane, decided to take steps to protect other motorists from the hazard, but ran into the tractor-trailer before he could do so, his injuries were...

A police officer, who sustained injuries in a motorcycle accident while traveling home after attending police training held at a different site from his usual workplace, and which was held on a day that he had been scheduled to be using personal leave...