Boulevard Manor Nursing Home v. Lacombe

BOOTH, Judge.

This cause is before us on appeal of an order awarding temporary disability benefits, payment of medical bills, and costs. The basic issue is whether claimant’s accident, which occurred after she left the employer’s premises to get a hamburger, was covered within the scope of her employment. Claimant alleged compensability, arguing that the employer had promised her a meal but failed to make it available, and that knee pain from a prior compensable injury forced her to drive to McDonald’s instead of walking to a cafeteria within the hospital complex where she worked.

The judge of…