John O'Shea v. Anthony J. Welch, and American Drug Stores, Inc., Doing Business as Osco Drug, Farmers Insurance Company, Inc., Defendant-Intervenor

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• holding that a “slight deviation” for “personal business” is still within the scope of employment if it “is sufficiently related to the employment”
• listing factors to consider in deciding whether a deviation is slight or substantial
• “Whether an employee is acting within the scope of his [or her] employment is generally a jury question.”
• “We also agree that the public policies behind worker’s compensation and third party liability cases are different.”
• \[w]e also agree that the public policies behind [workers'] compensation and third party liability cases are different\
• “A slight deviation might be considered reasonably incidental to employment while a substantial deviation would not.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).