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Jury Should Decide ‘Borrowed Employee’ Liability, New Jersey High Court Affirms

The New Jersey Supreme Court has affirmed that whether an employer is vicariously liable under the borrowed-employee doctrine is a question of fact that should be decided by the jury, not the judge, unless the evidence is obviously one-sided. The …

Injured Disney Cruise Line Worker Awarded $4M by Florida Jury

A Florida jury has decided that a Disney Cruise Line worker deserves $4 million from the company based on her claim that she got inadequate medical care from ship doctors after she was hit by a car during a port …

Barred Video Leads Texas Court to Reverse Jury Finding in Workers’ Comp Suit

The Texas Supreme Court has disagreed with the decision of a lower court to exclude, without having watched it, a company’s surveillance video of an injured employee in a workers’ compensation case. Because it found the lower court erred in …