Merritt Ex Rel. Estate of Merritt v. Smith

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• noting “the trip to and from an eating establishment, as well as the taking of meals themselves, while on out-of-town business are within the course and scope of employment unless the circumstances attending the taking of the meal constitutes [sic] a deviation”
• death of employee compensable under the Workers' Compensation Act, i.e., within the employee's scope of employment, where it resulted from a one car accident while travelling from restaurant back to motel while employee was out-oftown attending a meeting
• death of employee compensable under the Workers’ Compensation Act, i.e., within the employee’s scope of employment, where it resulted from a one-car accident while travelling from restaurant back to motel while employee was out-of-town attending a meeting
• worker’s compensation held the proper remedy for fatal injury received by employee while returning from a restaurant during a job-related conference since eating and going to eat viewed as being within the scope of employment on an out-of-town business trip

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