Supreme Court Rejects Suit Against Contractor for Fatal Accident by Drug-Using Trucker

The Nebraska Supreme Court last week ruled that the state’s statutory scheme regulating intrastate motor carriers does not impute an employer-employee relationship between the general contractor and the subcontracting motor carrier's employee for purposes of vicarious liability. Thus, the court said, the family of 23-year old Raven Addy-Cruz could not maintain a tort suit against the general contractor that had hired Lyle Carman’s employer to haul debris from a construction site for the fatal accident he caused while driving under the influence of amphetamine and methamphetami...