Phillips Contracting, Inc. v. Hirst

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• when a personal deviation is asserted, the issue is whether the activity giving rise to the injury, such as stopping at a bar, constitutes a deviation from employment so substantial as to remove the claimant from the employment relationship
• “An employee whose work requires travel away from the employer’s premises is held to be within the course and scope of employment continuously during the trip, except when the employee makes a distinct departure on a personal errand.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).