Price Mine Service, Inc. v. Industrial Claim Appeals Office

Opinion by

Judge PIERCE. *

The principal issue in this appeal is whether, petitioner, Price Mine Service, Inc., or TIG Insurance Company is liable to pay workers’ compensation benefits to Lester G. Connell (claimant) for injuries sustained in an automobile accident during the “quasi-course of employment.” If the automobile accident is compensable as part of the original injury, then TIG is liable as the insurer on risk at the time of the original injury. If the accident constitutes a separate compen-sable injury, then Price Mine is liable as an uninsured employer at the time of the accident. We…