Mills v. Patton

How courts have described this case

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• Determinations of whether an injury or death are compensable under the Workers’ Compensation Act are “mixed questions of law and fact.”
• an injury is incident to and arises out of one’s employment when it is connected with the employee’s job duties
• “In this regard, there is evidence that Howard had resumed the work of her employer at the time the accident occurred in that, in addition to the family’s dinner, she was bringing time sensitive, job-related paperwork and job-related equipment into her home.”
• A 24-hour on-call field nurse did not deviate from her employment when, after completing her patient visits and while still on-call, she picked up a pizza for her family’s dinner and went home, with the intention of completing time-sensitive paperwork for her employer there.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).