Mineral Industries, Inc. v. George

Bernard Durkin, a key employee of the plaintiff, was injured while driving the plaintiff’s car. It collided with a vehicle driven by the defendant George and *765owned by the defendant William’s Tree Surgeons, Inc. The latter moves to dismiss the complaint for failure to state a cause of action. The motion poses two questions — when a third party has negligently injured an employee, may the employer recover from the third party wages voluntarily paid the employee to induce his return to work upon his recovery; may the employer also recover its damage resulting from the lost services of its…