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CLAIMANT, A LIVE-IN HOME HEALTH ATTENDANT, WAS INJURED WHEN SHE FELL AFTER PICKING UP MEDICAL RECORDS FROM HER DOCTOR’S OFFICE; THE PURPOSE OF HER VISIT TO THE DOCTOR’S OFFICE WAS NOT PURELY PERSONAL; THEREFORE SHE WAS ENTITLED TO WORKERS’ COMPENSATION BENEFITS (THIRD DEPT).

The Third Department, reversing the Workers’ Compensation Board, determined that claimant, a 24-hour home health aide, was entitled to Workers’ Compensation benefits even though she was injured when she fell after picking up records from her doctor’s office:

… [I]t is undisputed that it was routine for claimant to escort her client on four- or five-hour walks on days where the client had no scheduled appointments, such as the day of the subject incident. According to claimant, while on such a walk on the day of the incident, she and her client elected to briefly stop at the subject doctor’s office for multiple reasons — to collect medical paperwork pertaining to claimant’s employment and to confirm whether the doctor accepted the client’s insurance prior to scheduling her an appointment. * * *

… [T]here is not substantial evidence that claimant’s actions represented a deviation from employment as conduct specifically prohibited by the employer … . Further, without regard to whether claimant prospectively inquired about the acceptance of her client’s insurance, claimant’s act of briefly stopping while on a routine walk with her client, regardless of where that stop took place, simply cannot be said to be purely personally or wholly unrelated to her work. Moreover, stopping at the subject doctor’s office in order to collect the subject paperwork benefited the employer by allowing claimant to continue to provide round-the-clock care to her client, and to secure the documentation necessary to ensure that such care would not be interrupted in the future. We therefore find that, under the circumstances, claimant’s activity was reasonable, sufficiently work related and, thus, not purely personal, such that the Board’s decision to the contrary is not supported by substantial evidence … . Matter of Sharipova v BNV Home Care Agency, Inc., 2021 NY Slip Op 00605, Third Dept 2-4-21

 

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