Juan Edward Shariss v. City of Bloomington

OPINION

REYES, Judge.

In this interlocutory appeal from the district court’s denial of appellants’ motion for summary judgment, appellants argue that common-law official immunity bars respondent’s negligence action against appellant snowplow driver because his decision to drive his snowplow in reverse was a discretionary act that was not willful or malicious and that, as a result, appellant city is entitled to vicarious official immunity. We affirm.

FACTS

On March 2, 2011, a snowplow owned by appellant City of Bloomington (the City), and driven by appellant Daniel Pawlak, collided with a van…