furnished. Id. Later in the day, one employee who was drinking at the party left in his automobile and collided with another vehicle, causing injuries to the other driver that resulted in her death. Id. The court concluded the Christmas party, if not a purely social occasion, would bring an employee within the scope of his employment. Id. at 962; see also Fairbanks v. J.B. McLaughlin Co., 131 Wash.2d 96, 929 P.2d 433, 435 (1997) (explaining plaintiff must prove among other things, the “party hosted by the employer [ ] was held to further the employer’s interest in some way and at which the employee’s presence was requested or impliedly or expressly required by the employer.”) (citing Dickinson v. Edwards, 105 Wash.2d 457, 716 P.2d 814, 819 (1986)); Cf. Honey’s, Inc., 786 F.Supp. at 551 (<HOLDING>). Not all jurisdictions, however, recognize a
holding that even when employee was driving employers vehicle employee was not acting within the scope of his employment absent evidence that he had undertaken a special mission at his employers direction holding that issues of fact precluded summary judgment on the question of whether an employee was acting within the course and scope of his employment for purposes of insurance coverage when the employee was simply sitting in his vehicle in his employers parking lot waiting for the business to open at the time the accident occurred holding that the employee was acting within the course of her employment when she died while returning from the workrelated session because her death occurred on a public highway which was brought within the scope of her employment by her employers requirement that she attend training at the state police academy holding that the employers party was a social event thus the employee was not acting within the scope of her employment when drinking at a party or when she was driving home afterwards holding as a matter of law that an offduty government agent was not acting within the scope of his employment when he was driving home intoxicated after completing his tour of duty because on no basis would the court conclude that drinking and driving after work hours fell within the scope of the dea agents employment  