10 results for 'cat:"Employment" AND cat:"Vehicle"'.
J. Cummings partially grants an auto body shop’s motion for summary judgment on a former employee’s discrimination claims. The former employee claims she faced discrimination at work on the basis of her pregnancy, and was eventually fired. The court finds the former employee has abandoned her hostile work environment claim, as she did not respond to the auto shop’s argument against it, but allows the rest of her allegations to go forward.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Cummings, Filed On: April 25, 2024, Case #: 1:21cv2524, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: employment, vehicle, employment Discrimination
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J. Jensen finds that the circuit court properly determined that a couple could not recover for legal malpractice as they did not have a claim against the State in a matter involving a car collision. The couple's collision occurred with an individual who was employed by the State of South Dakota Unified Judicial System who was traveling after finishing work for the day. The employee was not acting within the scope of his employment at the time of the accident. Affirmed.
Court: South Dakota Supreme Court, Judge: Jensen , Filed On: November 29, 2023, Case #: 2023SD60, Categories: employment, vehicle, Legal Malpractice
J. Levy denies a company’s motion for summary judgment against the woman suing it after one of its employees was in a head-on collision with, and killed, her husband and seriously injured her. It is not cut and dry that the employee was acting in a personal capacity, rather than in the scope of his employment, at the time of the collision.
Court: USDC Maine, Judge: Levy, Filed On: September 21, 2023, Case #: 1:21cv343, NOS: Motor Vehicle - Torts - Personal Injury, Categories: employment, vehicle, Wrongful Death
J. Cain denies summary judgment to an insurance company for a trucking company, finding the insurer has not provided sufficient evidence that the driver of a tractor-trailer was an independent contractor, thereby triggering the policy’s independent contractor exclusion. The driver was carrying a load of paper towels eastbound on Interstate-10 in Louisiana when a front tire blew out, causing him to lose control and cross into oncoming traffic in the westbound lanes striking a passenger vehicle.
Court: USDC Western District of Louisiana , Judge: Cain, Filed On: August 10, 2023, Case #: 2:19cv1478, NOS: Insurance - Contract, Categories: employment, Tort, vehicle