Court Orders Consideration of Whether Employer Endorsed Jaywalking

The Oregon Court of Appeals remanded a case to the Workers' Compensation Board with instructions to consider whether an employer exposed a worker to a greater risk than that to which the public is exposed by having him park across the street and then cross illegally outside of a crosswalk. Shawn Wiley was struck by a car as he jaywalked from a parking space to work across a busy public road. The Workers' Compensation Board said his employer, Pro Truck Dispatch LLC, was not liable because Wiley's injuries were excluded from coverage under the going-and-coming rule, which assumes a...