IBM Corp. v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board

Opinion

THOMPSON, J.

This proceeding for a review of a determination of the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board raises a narrow issue of application of the “commercial traveler rule.” We apply a liberal interpretation of the rule as mandated by Wiseman v. Industrial Acc. Com. (1956) 46 Cal.2d 570 [297 P.2d 649]. Accordingly, we uphold a determination of the board finding that a worker killed in an automobile accident was then within the course of his employment where: (1) the worker was sent by his employer from his home base in California to a training facility of the employer in Chicago,…