Trasti v. Citizens Insurance Co. of America

Plaintiff appeals as of right from the circuit court’s order granting defendants’ motion for summary disposition. We reverse.

Plaintiff’s husband, Paul A. Trasti, was employed as a mechanic by Hocking Construction Company. Another Hocking employee drove his company truck to the repair shop and told plaintiff’s husband that it was not running properly. Thereafter, plaintiffs husband went out to the truck and got underneath it to determine the source of the problem. Subsequently, the coemployee, unaware that plaintiffs husband was under the truck, started the truck and ran over him. Plaintiff’s…