Kodiak Oilfield Haulers v. Adams

OPINION

MOORE, Justice.

This worker’s compensation case presents two issues: First, whether an employee’s injury sustained in an automobile accident returning home from medical treatment of an employment-related injury is compensable under the Workers’ Compensation Act and second, whether the Board erred by not applying the presumption of compensability.

I. FACTS

Robert L. Adams (Adams) was employed by Kodiak Oilfield Haulers (Kodiak) as a short-haul truck driver on the North Slope. In February 1980, he injured his shoulder and back when he fell while attempting to load trash into a large basket.…