Pa. Ruling: Facts Don't Show 'Traveling Employee'

The evidence in a case of an investigator's slip and fall in his driveway established he was not working the day of his injury accident or that he had set out traveling for the employer, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court ruled. The court held in an unreported opinion in Blumer v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board, 728 C.D. 2006, 1/17/07, affirmed findings by a workers' compensation judge (WCJ) and the appeals board, both of which denied the claim petition of Frank Blumer. "The question for review is whether the WCJ and the board erred in concluding that (Blumer's) injury occurred outsid...