Exec's Injury Picking Up Road Kill Had Work Purpose

The South Carolina Supreme Court decided that a sales executive was furthering his employer's interests when he stopped to remove a dead animal from the road outside a country club where he was meeting prospective customers. The justices in Grant v. Grant Textiles, 26267, 02/20/2007, awarded Charles Grant workers' compensation benefits for an arm injury suffered when he was struck by a truck while walking outside a country club where he was to meet the company's chief executive. Grant was sales vice president at Grant Textiles, a company that sold machinery parts and equipment to texti...