Jose Andrade Painting v. Jaimes

Cooper, Judge.

We granted appellants’ application for discretionary appeal in this workers’ compensation case to determine whether the superior court erred in reversing the full board’s denial of benefits to appellee on the ground that he was not injured in the course of his employment.

Appellee was employed as a painter for appellant Jose Andrade Painting (“the employer”). Jose Andrade would meet his employees every morning at an apartment complex to give out work assignments. The apartment complex was chosen as a meeting point because many of the employees lived in or around the complex.…