Doughty v. CSX Transportation, Inc.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Lockett, J.:

This is an action brought by an employee of a wholly owned subsidiary corporation who was injured at work. After claiming and receiving workers compensation benefits as an employee of the subsidiary, the employee brought suit against the parent corporation for benefits pursuant to the Federal Employers’ Liability Act (FELA), 45 U.S.C. § 51 et seq. (1988), by alleging that the parent corporation, a railroad, was the alter ego of the subsidiary corporation. The worker claimed the separate identities of the two corporations was a fiction…