A man who injured his knee as he rushed to his car in his employer’s parking lot responding to a family emergency is not entitled to workers’ compensation benefits, the Commonwealth Court has ruled, finding the man wasn’t acting within the scope of his employment.
A three-judge panel of the Commonwealth Court reversed a Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board finding that James Shaw was entitled to benefits. The employer, Quality Bicycle Products appealed the board’s decision, which stemmed from the first part of a bifurcated hearing that tackled only the issue of whether Shaw was injured in the course of his employment.
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