Supreme Court Finds Worker's Death Compensable

The Rhode Island Supreme Court ruled that its judicially recognized exception to the going-and-coming rule for employees traveling from an employer-owned parking lot also applied to a worker killed while walking to his employer-lased parking spot. Case: Phillips v. Enterprise Rent-A-Car Co. of Rhode Island, No. 2020-120-M.P., 05/06/2022, published. Facts: Joseph Phillips worked as a driver for the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Co. of Rhode Island. He died in December 2016 as a result of a motor vehicle accident on Jefferson Boulevard.   Witnesses testified that Enterprise had a facility a...