Workers' Compensation

Listed below is McConnaughhay, Coonrod, Pope, Weaver & Stern, P.A.'s workers' compensation case law database. The database dates back until 1971 and includes over 5500 workers' compensation court decisions.

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Electronic Service Clinic v. Barnard

634 So.2d 707

The "special errands rule" is an exception to the usual "going and coming rule" where injuries are not compensable. Court determined that claimant was engaged in special errand at time of accident. The special errand required the claimant to return to his place of employment to obtain a vehicle and then return to his home. This case was differentiated from El Viejo Arco Iris, Inc. v. Luaces, 395 So.2d 225, where the claimant had done a special errand for the employer on his way home from work but the special errand had ended and the claimant had returned to his usual trip home. The injury in the Luaces case was ruled not compensable because the special errand had ended.