The Kentucky Supreme Court overturned an award of benefits to a worker who had relocated from out-of-state for a job, finding an accident that occurred while he was traveling to dinner before his scheduled shift was not in the course and scope of his employment.
Joseph Lee was a resident of Louisiana when he began discussions with W.G. Yates & Sons Construction regarding work at a site in Maysville, Kentucky.
Yates is based in Mississippi but works across the country, and it was hired to upgrade the ash system at the Eastern Kentucky Cooperative Plant in Maysville.
Yates maintained a te...
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