Claim of Carney v. Regal Dry Cleaners

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed June 19, 2001, which ruled that claimant’s injuries did not arise out of and in the course of her employment and denied her claim for workers’ compensation benefits.

Claimant, a front counter supervisor for a dry cleaning business, allegedly sustained various injuries in an automobile accident that occurred while on her lunch break. Before leaving the premises to make a payment at a local department store and to purchase her own lunch, claimant offered to pick up lunch for her coworkers. According to claimant, her supervisor…