University Employees to Face Civil Liability for Accident That Paralyzed Colleague

A Missouri appellate court last week ruled that a group of Southeast Missouri University employees may face civil liability to a colleague who was left paralyzed after a workplace accident. Christopher Nolen had worked as a janitor before he injured his spinal cord in a fall from the bleachers at the university's Show Me Center. His accident happened in May 2007, during the seven-year window in which Missouri allowed injured workers to maintain negligence actions against their colleagues. As the law now stands, a worker cannot be held personally liable for a co-employee's injury, un...