A former correctional officer lost her workplace injury case in a precedent-setting appellate ruling.
The Fourth District Court of Appeal found that Maria Miller had not proved the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation failed to engage in the interactive process to find accommodation—partly because there was no real accommodation they could provide for her workplace injury.
The appellate ruling laid out the facts:
Miller worked at the California Institution for Women in Chino since 2008. In 2016, she fell while working off site to recruit officers. She was diagnosed with fibromyalgia, and suffered pain in her back, knee, ankle and shoulder. She admitted in a deposition that her
