Bush v. Parmenter

This case concerns a claim for workers’ compensation benefits for the death of an attorney who was killed after a seven- to eight-hour deviation from his return trip home from a trust and investment seminar. We are asked to determine whether decedent’s injuries arose out of and in the course of employment where the wage earner, following "a night out on the town”, was shot to death after resuming a course which would have taken him to his house. We hold that decedent’s deviation was so extensive and involved such added risks totally unrelated to his employment that decedent had broken the…