Halford v. Nowak Construction Co.

Greene, J.:

In this workers compensation appeal, the employer and its insurer, Nowak Construction Company and St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Company respectively, appeal a decision of the Kansas Workers Compensation Appeals Board (the Board) awarding compensation to the survivor of Nowak’s employee, Kenneth Halford, after the employee was killed in a truck accident. The appeal requires that we construe and apply the “going and coming rule” reflected in K.S.A. 44-508(f), together with its statutory and judicially created exceptions. We conclude that the Board properly applied the exception…