Employer Parking Lot Injury Not Covered

Most Bucks County workers would think that if they were injured on their employer's property then they'd be entitled to Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation and have their medical bills paid and lost wages covered.  But this isn't necessarily the case.  In Bicycle Products Inc v. W.C.A.B. (Shaw), the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania found that an employee who injured his knee while running to his car in the employer's parking lot was not in the course and scope of employment; thus, the injury was not covered.  The Court said that since the injury was not caused by a condition of the parking lot (For example, a pot hole), then the injury is not covered under the Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Act.

If you have any questions regarding a Bucks County workers' compensation case, please feel free to contact the lawyers at Hoffman, Sternberg & Karpf, LLC. at 215-953-8955.

McDonald's: No workers comp for employee shot protecting patron

Do they have no sense of decency?

Fast food giant McDonald's has denied workers compensation benefits to a minimum wage employee who was shot when he ejected a customer who had been beating a woman inside the restaurant.

A representative of the administrator for McDonald's workers compensation plan explained that "we have denied this claim in its entirety as it is our opinion that Mr. Haskett's injuries did not arise out of or within the course and scope of his employment.

"Nigel Haskett, then aged 21, was working at a McDonald's in Little Rock, Arkansas last summer when he saw a patron, later identified as Perry Kennon, smacking a woman in the face. A surveillance video of the incident, which had been posted to YouTube, was taken down after McDonald's charged copyright infringement, but according to written descriptions of the video, Haskett tackled Kennon, threw him out, and then stood by the door to prevent him from reentering.

See the full story from Rawstory.com here. See a news report and surveillance video of the event here.