Parks v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board
California Supreme Court
Kegel, Tobin & Hamrick, David E. Lister, Suellen Barrett Symons, W. Joseph Truce and Robert G. Burden for Respondents.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
BIRD, C. J.
Is a school teacher entitled to workers’ compensation benefits where she was assaulted in her car immediately after leaving a school parking lot to go home from work under circumstances in which the teacher’s car was immobilized by departing school children who blocked the traffic?
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Petitioner, Sandra Parks, teaches kindergarten through third grade in the Los Angeles Unified School District. On January 17, 1979, she completed her workday at the 111th Street School in the Watts section of the city. Parks left the building and went to her car in the school parking lot. As was…
2Cases cited16 opinions
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