Ferguson v. Green Island Contracting Corp.

A corporate employer seeks to recover damages alleged to have been sustained by it on account of disabling personal injuries suffered by a difficult-to-replace employee responsible for product design and development. The allegation is that the injuries to the employee were caused by defendant-respondent’s negligence in the operation of a private aircraft in which the employee was flying as a passenger for hire.

Defendant-respondent’s motion to dismiss was properly granted. An employer has no right to recover damages sustained when one of its employees is injured in consequence of the…