Continental Airlines v. Industrial Commission

TURSI, Judge.

Employer, Continental Airlines, and its insurer, The Travelers Insurance Company, seek review of an order of the Industrial Commission awarding Mary L. Holloway (claimant) temporary total disability benefits. We affirm.

Claimant was employed by Continental Airlines as a flight attendant. As a salaried traveling employee, she sustained a back injury while on a scheduled layover in Sydney, Australia. The evidence established that claimant had been shopping and that she fell as she was leaving a store to return to the designated layover hotel. The Commission found that the injury…