Choctaw Resort Development Enterprise v. Applequist

MAXWELL, J„

for the Court:

¶ 1. The Workers’ Compensation Commission is the ultimate fact-finder in compensation cases.1 Our appellate review of its decisions is quite limited, and we must affirm if substantial evidence supports the Commission’s decision. With this standard in mind, we review a compensation award to Virginia Applequist, an off-property director of player development for a Mississippi casino, who was injured in a car wreck. Her employing casino and its insurance carrier claimed she was outside the course and scope of her employment during the accident. But the Commission found…