Waikar v. Royal Insurance Co. of America

On Application for Rehearing

THOMPSON, Judge.

The opinion of April 30, 1999, is withdrawn and the following is substituted therefor.

The plaintiff appeals from a summary judgment entered in favor of the defendant Royal Insurance Company of America, Inc. (“Royal”). On December 13, 1993, while Ravindra J. Waikar was working at his employment with Tulip Corporation, his arm was caught and severed in a plastic-molding machine. Waikar sued Tulip Corporation, several co-employees, and the manufacturer and re-manufacturer of the machine that had caused the injury. The workers’ compensation claim…