Co-Employee Liability In Multiple Cases

The common thread amongst the multiple cases discussing co-employee liability throughout the common law was that if the defendant co-employee created the danger, had superior knowledge of danger, or through his or her actions or inactions otherwise caused the plaintiff co-worker to encounter the danger, the defendant co-worker is liable. The supervisor directed a co-employee to connect a hose to a compressor. The co-employee then shook the hose to remove kinks and in the process caused the plaintiff to trip. In finding a submissible case against the co-employee for negligence, the Supreme Court focused on the fact that the danger was not caused by any defect in the hose itself, rather, the danger was created by the co-employee's handling of