CNA Ins. Co. v. Workers' Comp. Appeals Bd.

Opinion

HASTINGS, J.

In this petition for review of denial of a petition for reconsideration, we determine that the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board properly ordered an insurer to cover certain payments made to an injured worker.

Background

Long Beach Water Concessions bartender Celia Baker sustained injuries to her person when she proceeded down the gangway of her assigned vessel, Catalina King, and a surge of water from another arriving vessel caused the gangway and the City of Avalon’s floating dock to move in different directions and Baker to fall onto the dock. Baker had been disembarking…