Texas 11th Finds Nothing to Support AOE/COE

The Texas 11th District found nothing in a court's no-evidence summary judgment to suggest that a claimant was in the course and scope of his employment when he was involved in a fatal accident on his way to work. The appeals court affirmed a trial court's grant of summary judgment to the employer in Dunlap-Tarrant v. Association Casualty Insurance, 11-05-00221-CV, 11/16/06. Angela Dunlap-Tarrant filed an appeal from a take-nothing summary judgment in her workers' compensation claim in the death of Robert Tarrant. In its no-evidence motion, the defendant asserted that there was no eviden...