Court: Property Owner Owed No Duty of Care to Employee Killed Crossing Street

The Texas Supreme Court ruled that a property owner did not owe a duty of care to an employee who was struck and killed by a careless motorist while crossing the public street next to the hospital where she worked. HNMC Inc. owns and operates a hospital and a fenced parking lot in Northwest Houston. The hospital and lot are on either side of Cali Drive, a public roadway. There are crosswalks at each end of the block that connect the hospital to the parking lot’s pedestrian gates. But rather than walking to the end of the block, using the crosswalks and the pedestrian gates to acce...