The Supreme Court of Kentucky released its summary of published decisions for June 2014.
These published opinions included the following injury law, tort, insurance, and civil decisions:
- SC held in MV Transportation v. Allgeier (1) as an issue of first impression, the company’s concession that it was vicariously liable for driver’s negligence under respondeat superior did not preclude the passenger’s claim that the company was also directly liable for its own negligence upon her claims for negligent hiring, training, and retention; (2) that the motion in limine to exclude evidence of the driver’s alcoholism did not relieve the defendant of the obligation to contemporaneously object when passenger’s use of such evidence at trial exceeded the pre-trial ruling restricting that evidence to impeachment purposes; (3) a limited retrial exclusively on the claim for punitive damages would not violate the company’s right to a trial by jury under § 7 of the Kentucky Constitution, and would not violate the requirement of KRS 411.186(1) that punitive damages be tried along with claims for compensatory damages.
- Sovereign immunity addressed in context of state college employees claiming a contractual right to long term disability (Vera Furtula vs University of Kentucky).
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