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High Court to Decide Compensability of Traveling Nurse's Car Crash

By Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)

Friday, April 11, 2014 | 0

The Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral argument about whether a home health-care nurse should be entitled to workers' compensation benefits for her injuries from a car accident that happened while she was en route to a patient's house and the local mall.Tamara L. Friebel regularly used her car to drive from her home to see patients. She was paid for her mileage and her time, including transportation time, when she handled calls on weekends. On the morning of Jan. 22, 2011, she agreed to drop her kids off at the Richland Mall before going to see her first patient of the day...

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