Framing Subcontractor Is Not Liable Under Multi-Employer Worksite Doctrine for HVAC Subcontractor Employee’s Injuries Where Contractor Caused the Condition But Did Not Control It At Time Employee Intentionally Assumed Risk by Its Actions

by | Mar 20, 2012 | Newsletter Article

An employee of an HVAC subcontractor, while working on a house, fell to his death from the third floor to the basement through an open stairwell.  The framing of the house had been completed three weeks earlier by the framing contractor who left an unprotected hole in...

General Contractor on Highway Project Has No Duty to Prospective Motorists to Rectify Unsafe Condition or Warn of Unsafe Condition Where It Followed the Design Specifications and Work was Approved by Engineer and owner

by | Mar 16, 2012 | Newsletter Article

In a wrongful death lawsuit against a general contractor for the death of an individual whose car slid into a river from a highway on which the contractor had completed work seven months earlier, the plaintiff argued a premises defect theory of liability against the...