PA Commonwealth Court Affirms Denial of Parking Lot Injury Claim

GA Co-Employee Defendant Enjoys Immunity from Civil Liability Following Parking Lot Accident

Strict Arkansas Statute Does Not Bar Recovery for Nurse’s Slip and Fall During Lunch Break

Texas Employee Recovers in Tort Against Employer Following Parking Lot Fall

Ohio Court Stresses Not All Employer Parking Lot Injuries are Compensable

In a recent decision that outlines and clarifies several important issues related to injuries in an employer-owned or controlled parking lot, an Ohio appellate court reversed a trial court’s determination...

Ohio Social Worker’s Slip and Fall Injuries in Icy Restaurant Parking Lot Did Not Arise from His Employment

An Ohio appellate court disagreed with the trial court’s conclusion that a social worker was a fixed situs employee whose injuries sustained when he slipped and fell in a restaurant...

RI Supreme Court Broadens “Parking Lot” Rule to Include Leased Properties

Under Rhode Island’s so-called Branco exception to the going and coming rule, an employee and/or the employee’s dependents may recover workers’ compensation benefits where the employee’s injury or death results...

NJ Librarian’s Parking Lot Injuries When Struck by Snowplow are Compensable

Yesterday, the Supreme Court of New Jersey, reversing a decision of the Superior Court, Appellate Division [see 466 N.J. Super. 160, 245 A.3d 1019 (App. Div. 2021)], found that serious injuries...

Oregon Employee’s Slip and Fall Claim in “Annex Parking Area” Not Barred by Going and Coming Rule

Construing the “parking lot” exception to the standard going and coming rule, an Oregon appellate court affirmed an award of benefits to a dental hygienist who sustained injuries when she...

NJ Township Librarian’s Injuries in Township Parking Lot Did Not Occur on the Employer’s Premises

Reversing a decision of a state workers’ compensation judge, the Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division, found that injuries sustained by a township librarian, when she and her husband...

PA Supreme Court Refuses Narrow Definition of Employer’s “Premises” in Parking Lot Case

Affirming a decision of the state’s Commonwealth Court, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania recently held that an airline employee who was injured while riding an airport shuttle bus to an...

Georgia Employee’s Estate May Move Forward With Tort Action Regarding Parking Lot Shooting

Where a grocery store employee was shot and killed in an apparent robbery attempt in the parking lot adjacent to the store, but after the employee had ended her work...