Pappas v. Marine Spill Response Corp.

hSAUNDERS, Judge.

In this workers’ compensation proceeding, the question is whether the employer should be required to pay its employee’s medical expenses occasioned by a wholly unprovoked and sudden assault on an employee it assigned to attend a convention in New Orleans, Louisiana. |2The hearing officer concluded that the employer is responsible for those medical expenses. We affirm.

FACTS

The facts are not in dispute. Claimant John Pappas was employed by Marine Spill Response Corporation (MSRC) as a communications technician. In that capacity, with supervisor Joe Matthews, plaintiff travelled…