SB 196 – Restricts co-employee liability in workers' compensation cases

• Sponsor: Cunningham
• LR Number: 1174S.01I
• Committee: Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence
• Last Action: 2/7/2011 - Second Read and Referred S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee
• Journal Page: S204
• Effective Date: August 28, 2011

Current Bill Summary

SB 196 - This act ensures that co-employees shall be released from liability for negligence in performing the non-delegable duty of an employer to provide a safe workplace when the negligence harms another employee unless the negligent employee engaged in purposeful, affirmatively dangerous conduct.

This act is identical to SB 8 (2011).

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