Cope v. West American Insurance

*235CARSON, J.

This declaratory judgment action involves an automobile insurance policy coverage dispute between plaintiff-insured and defendants-insurers. The pivotal issue is whether an injury received by an employee who had parked her automobile in her employer’s parking lot and was walking to work is a work-related injury compensable under workers’ compensation law.

Plaintiff was employed by the Modoc Lumber Company in Klamath Falls. As a Modoc employee, plaintiff was permitted to park her vehicle in a parking lot located across a public street from her workplace. The lot was leased by Modoc…