Workers’ Compensation • Injury in Course and Scope of Employment • Temporary Departure from Work to Administer to Personal Needs • Personal Comfort Doctrine
Starr Aviation v. Workers’ Comp. Appeal Bd. (Colquitt), PICS Case No. 17-0432 (Pa. Commw. March 7, 2017) McCullough, J. (11 pages).
A brief departure from work duties, expressly authorized by employer, to retrieve personal care products fell within the personal comfort doctrine that rendered an injury, suffered during the departure, within the course and scope of employment. Order of the WCAB affirmed.
