Amedisys Home Health, Inc. v. Howard

Eldridge, Judge.

It is undisputed that 24-hour on-call field nurse, appellee-plaintiff Mary Howard, fell in the driveway of her home injuring her ankle in the early evening of January 6, 2002. At the time of her fall, she was carrying patient reports for completion before the following morning, a pager, a cellular telephone, a newspaper, and a takeout pizza for the family’s dinner for which she had stopped on the way home. Contending that her injuries arose out of and in the course of employment, Howard filed a workers’ compensation claim against her former employer/self-insurer,…