Stewart v. Bear's Tire

Citations

• 2019 Ohio 1832

Syllabus

Bureau of Workers' Compensation appeals trial court's decision finding injured worker entitled to participate in compensation fund. Worker was company president. Company provided mobile commercial tire changing services. President injured while traveling to breakfast meeting with company employee, commercial tire changer. At meeting, president intended to direct the employee to work at apartments owned by president's separate company. Trial court affirmed where president's injury was received in the course of and arose out of employment. Evidence indicated tire changing business was slow and president was travelling to meet with the employee for morale-boosting breakfast with hope that tire service call would occur. If no call occurred, president intended to direct the employee to work at the apartments. Retaining highly-skilled employees by ensuring full-time wages was a benefit to the tire changing business when business increased in the spring and summer.