Quaker Oats Co. v. Ciha

How courts have described this case

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• holding the special errand exception applied when an “on-call” employee was paged to come to the plant and was in an accident on his way home
• affirming decision requiring payment for widened doorways, ramp into home, special shower, elevator, and other items necessitated by plaintiffs wheelchair-bound status
• “[W]e believe the specific home modifications and van conversion are 7 merely an extension of Ciha’s wheelchair.”
• home modifications including “widened doorways, a ramp into the home, a special shower, an elevator, and other items necessitated by [employee’s] wheelchair-bound status” were covered by workers’ compensation statute
• “Factors that should be considered include the employee’s functional disability, age, education, qualifications, experience, and the ability of the employee to engage in employment for which the employee is fitted.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).