2nd DCA: Firefighter's Trimming of Plant Arose out of Employment

A firefighter's decision to help his wife trim the wisteria in front of their Catalina Island home was incidentally related to his job because island residents would occasionally go to his home for emergency help, the 2nd District Court of Appeal ruled in an unpublished decision.The Southern California appellate court annulled and remanded a Workers' Compensation Appeals Board panel decision on Tuesday, after deciding that a firefighter's injuries were work-related under the dual purpose doctrine. This doctrine allows a claim to be compensable if the activity the applicant was perf...