Legal Opinion
Histed v. E.I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co.
Supreme Court of Delaware
Decided March 10, 1993PublishedCited by 119 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MOORE, Justice.
Ara Marie Histed appeals a decision of the Superior Court affirming the Industrial Accident Board’s (the “Board”) denial of workers’ compensation benefits to her. Ms. Histed was injured in an automobile accident that occurred outside of her normal work hours while she was responding to her employer’s call for emergency service at one of its plants. This case raises an issue we have not previously addressed under our workers’ compensation law— when, if ever, can an employee’s commute to the work site qualify under the “special errand” exception to the general “going and coming”…
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