Ramos v. M & F FASHIONS, INC.

The Workers’ Compensation Act (the Act) is a carefully constructed legislative plan for providing benefits to workers injured in the workplace. It represents the Legislature’s best judgment on the appropriate allocation between employers and employees of the costs and benefits for such injuries.

Originally enacted in 1911, the Act was substantially amended in 1979. One goal of the Legislature when enacting the 1979 amendments was to reverse this Court’s creation of exceptions to the “going and coming rule.” That rule bars a worker from collecting workers’ compensation benefits for injuries…