New Dade Apparel, Inc. v. De Lorenzo

WENTWORTH, Judge.

Appellants, the employer/carrier, seek review of a workers’ compensation order by which appellee’s accident was determined to be compensable. Appellants contend the deputy commissioner erred in concluding the accident was compensable as an exception to the going and coming rule, arguing that because appellee was injured while on a purely personal mission, his accident was a noncompensable deviation from work. We find that on the day of his injury appellee was at work only because of a special request of his employer, and his temporary absence for a portion of that day for a…