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Legal briefs: Injury at ballpark not covered under workers comp.(Perspectives)(ERISA determines beneficiary)(Exception to dishonesty exclusion)

Business Insurance, September, 2003 by Stiegler, Mayo H.

The Court of Appeals of North Carolina ruled that an employee on a business trip for his employer deviated from that trip when he was injured while exiting a ballpark where he attended a ballgame. Sara Lee Corp. employed Tim Jacobs as a salesman. His job duties consisted mainly of outside sales activities that involved traveling to the places of business of customers and prospective customers.

Sara Lee offered trips to food shows as an incentive to its sales force. Mr. Jacobs had taken about 20 such trips during his Sara Lee employment. Sara Lee provided transportation and spending money for the employees and the employees were paid their normal salaries. In May 1999, while Mr. Jacobs was in Chicago on one such trip, he bought a ticket to the White...

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