Key legal question
Whether the insured was entitled to commuting expense allowances for the December 2016 assignments.
Extracted holding
No entitlement existed because the out-of-town work did not cause a wage loss once necessary travel and meal expenses were compared with the prior insured earnings.
Extracted reasoning
The court compared the income from the new assignments, excluding vacation compensation and deducting necessary expenses, with the prior insured income similarly adjusted. The resulting outside income exceeded the earlier comparable income, so the statutory requirement of financial loss was not met.