Chavis v. TLC Home Health Care

WYNN, Judge.

Under the Workers’ Compensation Act, a traveling employee is in the course of employment once a personal deviation has been completed and the direct business route has been resumed. Cauble v. Soft-Play, Inc., 124 N.C. App. 526, 529, 477 S.E.2d 678, 679 (1996), disc. review denied, 345 N.C. 751, 485 S.E.2d 49 (1997). In this case, Plaintiff-Employee traveled to a patient’s home, left on a personal *368errand, and was injured in an automobile accident on her return to the patient’s home. Because the personal errand was complete and Plaintiff had resumed her business travel route, we…