Leordeanu v. American Protection Insurance Co.

in which Chief Justice JEFFERSON, Justice WAINWRIGHT, Justice MEDINA, Justice GREEN, Justice WILLETT, Justice GUZMAN, and Justice LEHRMANN joined.

Generally, traveling home from work is not in the “course and scope of employment” as defined by the Texas Workers’ Compensation Act.1 But is traveling from one workplace to another while on the way home? The court of appeals answered no.2 We disagree.

Petitioner Liana Leordeanu, a pharmaceutical sales representative officing out of her northwest Austin apartment, drove her company car to business appointments in Bastrop some forty miles southeast,…