Supreme Court to Decide Whether Airport Shuttle Bus Qualifies as Airline Employer's 'Premises'

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court will weigh in on the question of whether an employee is within the course and scope of employment when traveling between a parking lot and the workplace. Earlier this year, the Commonwealth Court ruled that an airline was liable for the payment of benefits to a flight attendant who was injured while taking a shuttle bus from an airport parking lot to the terminal from which her plane was departing. While there was no dispute that Betty Bockelman was not engaged in work furthering her employer’s business when she slipped on a puddle of water...