Keefer v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.

State Farm Fire and Casualty Company and others (State Farm) appeal from a nonfinal order 1 denying motions for summary judgment and essentially holding that sec. 893.80, Stats. (1979), 2 does not limit the personal tort exposure of a government employee, but limits only the governmental body’s exposure, to $25,000. We disagree and hold that the language of sec. 893.80(3) clearly and unambiguously limits the amount of recovery against governmental bodies and their employees equally.

Christopher Keefer was injured in a shop class when a steel drum which he was cutting open with an acetylene…