Seabright Insurance Company v. Maximina Lopez, Beneficiary of Candelario Lopez

in which Chief Justice Hecht, Justice Willett, Justice Guzman, Justice Lehrmann, Justice Boyd, Justice Devine, and Justice Brown joined.

This workers’ compensation case requires us to determine whether summary judgment evidence conclusively established that an employee was acting in the course and scope of his employment when he died in an automobile accident while traveling to a job site. A contested case hearing officer for the Texas Department of Insurance, Workers’ Compensation Division, heard evidence and determined that the *640employee suffered a compensable injury, and a three-member…