Supreme Court Clarifies COE Analysis for Traveling Employees

The terms of a traveling employee's contract with her employer, and not the analytic tools developed by case law, should control the analysis of whether the employee was within the course of her employment at the time of her car accident, the Delaware Supreme Court ruled.Case: Spellman v. Christiana Care Health Services, No. 315, 2012, 04/08/2013, published. Facts: Mary E. Spellman worked as a home health aide for Christiana's Visiting Nurse Association for 18 years. Spellman traveled in her personal automobile to and from patients' homes and paid for her own gas and car ...