Court Opinion

ID: 9631143
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 10:29:58.944492+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:07:49.168006
License: Public Domain

MACY, Justice,
dissenting, with whom GOLDEN, Justice, joins.
I dissent. Wyo.Stat. § 27-14-102(a)(xi) (1977) clearly states that, before either the employer or the employee can invoke the provisions of the Wyoming Worker’s Compensation Act, the employee’s injury must arise “out of and in the course of employment while at work” and that an injury sustained while an employee is “travel[ing] to or from employment” is not compensa-ble “unless the employee is reimbursed for travel expenses or is transported by a vehicle of the employer.”
Archuleta was not “in the course of employment while at work” when his injury occurred. He had completed his daily hazardous task as a custodian before he was injured. There is no nexus between the injury and a condition, activity, environment, or requirement of employment.
It is for the legislature to determine whether it wants a “premises” exception to the Wyoming Worker’s Compensation Act, not for this Court under the guise of liberal construction.