| p>Let's say you are on your way to work in San | | | | have been injured. Well, normally we simply loose |
| Francisco, and you injure yourself in the parking lot | | | | that fight. |
| outside your workplace. Can you claim your injury is | | | | However, the Supreme Court in Nebraska just ruled in |
| a workplace injury and file an appropriate legal or | | | | favor of a worker who was injured while walking to |
| workers compensation action as a result? | | | | work through a parking lot just as he had done every |
| Well, normally the answer would be no. Many states | | | | day. The ruling allows the employee's suit to go |
| have what's known as a "coming and going" rule. | | | | forward in Nebraska but it is a win for common sense |
| The rule works like this. Workers compensation | | | | and for workers everywhere. If the case goes |
| system precludes coverage for injuries that a worker | | | | forward and the injury victim is able to prevail, other |
| suffers while they are commuting to and from work. | | | | courts and other states may take a closer look at this |
| Injury attorneys in San Francisco and all over the | | | | rule that has been harming workers for years. |
| country have grumbled at the unfair nature of this law | | | | We need more common sense rulings from Courts |
| for years. And to personal injury attorneys like | | | | here in the San Francisco Bay Area in order to ensure |
| myself, it is easy to see how when a person is injured | | | | workplace injuries are treated as workplace injuries, |
| on their way to work, but for their work they wouldn't | | | | even when they take place on the way to work. |