Crawford v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board

Opinion

PUGLIA, P. J.

Petitioner’s application for workers’ compensation benefits was denied by the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board (Board). At the direction of the Supreme Court, we issued a writ of review. The case turns on the applicability or not of the so-called bunkhouse rule to petitioner’s circumstances. That rule is “no more than an extension of the general rule that where an employee is injured while on his employer’s premises as contemplated by his employment contract, he is entitled to compensation for injuries received during the reasonable and anticipatable use thereof.”…