Personal Deviation Sinks Mississippi Salesman’s Claim
Construing the “dual purpose” rule, as utilized in Mississippi, the state’s Court of Appeals, in a deeply divided (6-4) decision, affirmed a decision of the Mississippi Workers’ Compensation Commission...
View ArticleNC Court Narrows State’s Traveling Employee Rule
In a decision that could have important implications for those who travel as part of their work for North Carolina employers, a state appellate court, affirming a decision of the state’s Industrial...
View ArticleNY Court Construes State’s Traveling Employee Rules and Affirms Award of...
Construing the state’s traveling employee rules, as those rules pertain to claims for workers’ compensation benefits, a New York appellate court affirmed a decision by the state’s Workers’ Compensation...
View ArticleSupreme Court of Georgia Jettisons 85-Year-Old Decision Regarding...
Jettisoning a decision that had stood for more than 85 years, a divided Supreme Court of Georgia overruled Ocean Acc. & Guar. Corp. v. Farr, 180 Ga. 266 (178 SE 728) (1935), and reversed an earlier...
View ArticleColorado Court: Pilot Not Engaged in Personal Deviation in Spite of Elevated...
A Colorado appellate court recently affirmed a decision by the state's Industrial Claim Appeals Office that found an airline pilot’s widow and children were entitled to survivor benefits after the...
View ArticleUnder FL Statute, “Traveling Employee” is Not in “Travel Status” While...
Reversing a decision by a state judge of compensation claims (JCC) that had awarded workers’ compensation benefits to a Florida HVAC technician who sustained injuries in a vehicular accident as he...
View ArticleFlorida Court Stresses There is No “Field Employee” Exception to Statutory...
A Florida appellate court held that a judge of compensation claims committed error when he determined that a construction worker who sustained severe injuries in a vehicular accident as he drove from...
View ArticleKentucky High Court Says Traveling-Employee Doesn’t “Travel” Until She Leaves...
In a split decision, the Supreme Court of Kentucky held that, for purposes of the traveling-employee exception to the coming and going rule [some jurisdictions refer to it as the “going and coming”...
View ArticleSplit Mississippi Court Agrees Traveling Employee’s Deviation Was Sufficient...
In a deeply divided (7-4) decision, the Court of Appeals of Mississippi affirmed a divided decision of the state’s Workers’ Compensation Commission that had denied the claim filed by pipeline worker...
View ArticleIllinois Court Affirms Award of Benefits to Traveling Employee Injured in...
Construing the state’s rules on traveling employees, an Illinois appellate court recently affirmed a finding of the state’s Workers’ Compensation Commission that a town’s “blight inspector” was a...
View ArticleCalifornia Court Extends Commercial Traveler Rule to Remote Camp Worker
In a decision that pushes the boundaries of the “commercial traveler” rule, a California appellate court has held that a 19-year-old food service worker at a remote fire camp was acting within the...
View ArticleWA Court: Traveling Employee Doctrine Not Applicable to Occupational Disease...
In a divided decision construing the limits of the “traveling employee doctrine” in the state of Washington, an appellate court held that the doctrine does not apply to occupational disease cases...
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