ANSA MUFFLERS CORPORATION v. Law

Birdsong, Judge.

We granted this appeal by the employer from the order of the superior court remanding this claim to the State Board of Workers’ Compensation for the limited purpose of receiving evidence and making findings of fact. The central issue is whether the employee was in the course of his employment at the time he was injured in a traffic accident.

A hearing was conducted by an administrative law judge (ALJ), evidence was presented on the issue, and the ALJ found as a matter of fact that although the accident happened on the same road which would be used by the employee both to go…