Gordon v. National Union Fire Insurance

BARRY, Judge.

Plaintiff appeals from a directed verdict granted by the Trial Judge at the close of his case before a jury. The only issue is to determine if, after considering all of the evidence in the light most favorable to the plaintiff, reasonable and fair-minded persons might conclude that plaintiff was outside the course and scope of his employment at the time of his accident, and thus entitled to a trial by jury.

Plaintiff was a passenger in a vehicle owned by his employer and driven by a fellow employee when he was severely injured in an intersectional collision with a tractor-trailer.…