Employers Can't Be Held Liable for Drunken Paralegal's Fatal Accident With Train

A Florida appellate court on Wednesday ruled that a worker’s family could not stake a viable claim against her dual employers for allegedly plying her with alcohol and then leaving her out on the street. Susan Salerno was 10 miles from home when she drunkenly set out on foot. The mother of two was struck and killed by a Tri-Rail train as she made her way along the tracks north of Palmetto Park Road in Boca Raton. “Walking down the railroad track was an act of her own volition and remote from her employment,” the 4th District Court of Appeal said. “The accident wa...