Supreme Court Won't Use Dual Persona Doctrine to Expand Employer's Immunity to Landowner

In a case of first impression, Maine’s highest court on Tuesday declined to use the dual persona doctrine to expand an employer’s immunity from civil suit to a property owner with a corporate affiliation to the employer. Normally the doctrine is invoked to allow an employee to sue his employer in tort under a theory that the employer occupies a second persona that generates obligations unrelated to those flowing from that of an employer. The Supreme Judicial Court of Maine said the fact that an employer can be treated as a separate entity without immunity under the Workers&r...