Estate of Soupene Ex Rel. Soupene v. Lignitz

How courts have described this case

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• finding that volunteer firefighter had assumed duties related to employment when he began responding to emergency call and was thus entitled to workers compensation benefits
• finding that volunteer firefighter had assumed duties related to employment when Hewlett-Packard Company began responding to emergency call and was thus entitled to workers compensation benefits
• finding a volunteer firefighter who has no set hours of employment, but is instead on call, assumes his duties when he receives an emergency call and begins to respond
• amendment which in effect construes and clarifies a prior statute must be accepted as the legislative declaration of the meaning of the original act
• workers compensation appeal of volunteer firefighter injured in collision with another emergency responder; court cites Messenger approvingly as example of case involving travel to work as “integral and necessary part of the employment which benefitted the employer”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).