Negligence – Slip & Fall – Statutory Employee
By Deborah Elkins
Published: December 1, 2008
An employee of a trucking company who fell off a ladder as he attempted to use a tarpaulin to cover a load of transformers to be delivered for defendant manufacturer was a “statutory employee” of the manufacturer barred by Virginia’s workers’ comp statute from suing the manufacturer for negligence, a Roanoke U.S. District Court holds.
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