KODIAK OILFIELD HAULERS v. ADAMS

No. S-2432.

777 P.2d 1145 (1989)

KODIAK OILFIELD HAULERS, Petitioner, v. Robert L. ADAMS, Protective National Insurance Company, and Alaska Workers' Compensation Board, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

July 21, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Julie E. Bryant and Robert J. McLaughlin, Faulkner, Banfield, Doogan and Holmes, Anchorage, for petitioner.

Thomas L. Melaney, Anchorage, for respondent, Robert L. Adams.

Before MATTHEWS, C.J., and RABINOWITZ, BURKE, COMPTON and MOORE, JJ.


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...

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