Worker’s death en route to conference compensable

A landscape manager was within the “course and scope of his employment” when he died en route to pick up a co-worker to attend a leadership conference, a Texas appeals court found. Wednesday’s ruling by the 3rd District Court of Appeals in Texas in Zurich American Insurance Co. vs. Chantal McVey upholds a lower court’s decision rejecting Zurich’s argument that Troy McVey’s beneficiary was not entitled to workers compensation benefits because he was not acting in the course and scope of his employment when he died in an auto accident.