La Croix v. Omaha Public Schools

The appellant, Diane La Croix, brought the instant workers’ compensation action seeking compensation for injuries she incurred when she fell in a parking lot that was not owned by her employer, appellee Omaha Public Schools (OPS), but in which OPS encouraged her to park her vehicle and from which OPS provided transportation to the workplace. A single judge of the Nebraska Workers’ Compensation Court dismissed La Croix’s petition based on the “bright-line” premises rule set out by this court in Johnson v. Holdrege Med. Clinic, 249 Neb. 77, 541 N.W.2d 399 (1996). A panel of the Workers’…