Overruling the trial court and Court of Appeals, the Georgia Supreme Court has revived a lawsuit filed by a laboratory technician against a company whose employee accidentally shot him after bringing a loaded handgun into the lab on a service call.

The unanimous decision said both lower courts misconstrued a Georgia law allowing employees to bring guns to their workplace as long as the weapons are locked in their private vehicles, noting that—in the case at hand—the pistol-packing service rep was in a company-owned vehicle on a client’s property.