Federal Insurance v. Horner

Deen, Presiding Judge.

1. The administrative law judge hearing this workmen’s compensation case correctly held as follows: "It cannot be seriously questioned in this state that injuries sustained by an employee in an accident suffered while on the way to work and before actually beginning work, are not compensable, in the absence of a showing that the employee occupied the status of a traveling salesman or one on call. See, for example, Travelers Ins. Co. v. Ross, 110 Ga. App. 312, 313, and Corbin v. Liberty Mutual Ins. Co., 117 Ga. App. 823.” In the present case the employee, who used his own…