Considering the going-and-coming and traveling provisions of workers’ compensation laws, Florida’s First District Court of Appeals found that a compensation claims judge erred in finding an employee was owed compensation for injuries he sustained while traveling from his final service call in an employee-owned vehicle.

Aaron Kohlun, an air conditioning service technician with Kelly Air Systems, was authorized to drive an employer-provided car to service calls, but he was also allowed to use the vehicle to and from work and to make incidental personal trips on the way to and from work, according to the appellate court’s opinion filed Wednesday.

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