Noboa v. International Shoppes, Inc.

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed February 28, 2013, which ruled that claimant sustained an accidental injury in the course of her employment and awarded workers’ compensation benefits.

Claimant was a sales associate at the employer’s Kennedy Airport store. When the airport and the store closed early and the public transportation that claimant normally took home from the airport was suspended due to a major snow storm, the employer terminated claimant’s shift — although she was paid for the remainder of the day — and transported her and other employees from the…