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Where an employer determined that there was inadequate parking for its employees immediately adjacent to its offices and arranged through its landlord to secure additional parking spaces in a nearby parking lot, and encouraged its employees to utilize those spots, the “annex parking area” became a part of the employer’s premises, such that an employee’s injuries in a slip and fall on ice while walking from the annex area to the employer’s office was compensable; substantial evidence supported the Board’s findings that the employee’s injury claim was not barred by the going and coming rule.
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See In re Comp. of Lynn, 301 Or. App. 198, 2021 Ore. App. LEXIS 1645 (Nov. 24, 2021)
See generally Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law, § 13.04.
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