According to defendants, although defendant Hall started his drive on 2 January 2018 in order to perform the proprietary function of repairing a water main leak in a city-owned water line, he then saw that the leak was coming from a privately owned line across the street. Therefore, defendants contend, just before Hall made the
Plaintiff’s decedent died while cleaning his bandsaw machine at work. After receiving workers’ compensation benefits, plaintiff also sought to hold the defendant-operations manager liable. While it is true that the employer did not block access to the area in which the decedent was killed and that the defendant-operations manager said – if the decedent had
After co-workers Michelle Marlow and Tangela Parker had their third spat while working at defendant TXS Designs, Tangela went out to her vehicle, retrieved a gun, returned to the factory, and shot Michelle twice in the head at pointblank range, killing her. Michelle’s death, though caused by a coworker, is not a natural and probable
When defendant realized the brakes had failed on the car she was driving, she bypassed a couple of places into which she could have turned because they didn’t seem safe. She turned into the parking lot of a convenience store and, traveling about 10 mph, struck the convenience store, upsetting a display, which struck plaintiff
While the Federal Tort Claims Act doesn’t generally waive sovereign immunity for assault and battery by a government employee, it does waive such immunity if the assault or battery arises out of “acts or omissions of investigative or law enforcement officers of the United States Government.” 28 U.S.C. § 1346(b)(1) (the law enforcement proviso). Although