Lewis v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board

Opinion

TOBRINER, J.

In this case we must determine whether the Workers’ Compensation Act affords compensation to an employee for an injury which occurred on a public street while the employee was walking from the employer’s parking lot to her office. The Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board denied recovery under the so-called going and coming rule, which bars compensation for injuries which occur “during a local commute enroute to a fixed place of business at fixed hours in the absence of special or extraordinary circumstances.” (Hinojosa v. Workmen’s Comp. Appeals Bd. (1972) 8 Cal.3d 150, 157…