What the panel ordered
Petition for Reconsideration denied by the Appeals Board on July 25, 2025.
Defendant sought reconsideration of the Findings and Order issued by the WCJ on April 15, 2025, which found injury AOE/COE and not barred by the going and coming rule; the WCJ recommended denial of reconsideration.
What was disputed, and how it came out
Each issue the panel decided, with the reasoning it gave. An outcome is what this panel did on this record — not a rule, and not a prediction.
The WCJ's findings that the injury was AOE/COE and not barred by the going and coming rule under the special risk exception are supported by substantial evidence, including applicant's routine exposure to the risks of navigating World Way at LAX, which is a high-traffic environment shared by employees and the public, and the Appeals Board defers to the WCJ's factual findings.
From the decision · page 1Defendant seeks reconsideration of the Findings and Order (F&O) issued on April 15, 2025 by a workers' compensation administrative law judge (WCJ). The WCJ found that applicant sustained injury arising out of and in the course of his employment (AOE/COE) on July 10, 2023, while employed as a ground operations worker by JetBlue Airways Corporation at Los Angeles Airport (LAX); that applicant's injury was not barred by the going and coming rule based on the special risk exception to that rule; and that all other pending issues, including parts of body injured, remain bifurcated and off-calendar. The WCJ ordered this matter off calendar for further discovery.