Can two co-employees, injured in the same accident and under identical employment circumstances, be treated differently under workmen's compensation law?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Rhodes v. Workers' Comp. Appeals Bd., 148 Cal.Rptr. 713, 84 Cal.App.3d 471 (Cal. App. 1978):
"Two co-employees, injured in the same accident and under identical employment circumstances, cannot logically be treated differently under the workmen's compensation law merely because one is the legal owner of, and the other a passenger in, the vehicle involved in the accident. (Compare Stumar v. Industrial Acc. Com. (1936) 16 Cal.App.2d 429, 60 P.2d 557 with
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