Cummings Trucking Co., Inc. v. Dean

THIGPEN, Judge.

This is a workmen’s compensation case.

In September 1991, Jerre Chester Dean, an employee of Cummings Trucking Company, Inc. (Cummings), filed a complaint, requesting workmen’s compensation benefits for injuries which he alleged were a result of a work-related accident. He contended that he was injured when he fell at a truck stop in Florida while en route to deliver a shipment.

Although Cummings answered admitting that Dean’s injury occurred during the course of his employment, Cummings asserted that the injury was not compensable because it did not “arise out of’ the employment…