Brazeal v. Citgo Petroleum Corp.

REIF, Judge.

The trial court ruled that Claimant’s injury in a walkway between her workplace parking space and her workplace office did not arise out of and in the course of employment. The court reached this conclusion despite Claimant’s uncontroverted testimony that she paid for the parking through payroll deduction, the parking garage was set aside for company employees, and she was on her way to work at the time. Citing American Management Systems, Inc. v. Burns, 1995 OK 58, 903 P.2d 288, the trial court ruled that Claimant’s injury “cannot be said to be causally connected to employment”…