Jones v. Brown

Opinion

MOLINARI, P. J.

Plaintiff appeals from a summary judgment entered in favor of defendants in a personal injury action. The issue on appeal, as in the court below, is whether plaintiff, a domestic employee of defendants at the time of her injury, is precluded from bringing the subject action in the superior court because she was an employee who came under the workmen’s compensation provisions of the Labor Code so as to give exclusive jurisdiction over plaintiff’s claim to the Workmen’s Compensation Appeals Board (hereinafter referred to as the “Board”).

The chronology of the pertinent…