Ferguson v. Rensselaer County Air Park, Inc.

The defendant’s motion is simply to dismiss the second cause of action as alleged in the complaint for legal insufficiency. The determination depends on whether or not an employer has a cause of action for loss of services sustained as the result of injury to a key employee through the negligence of the defendant.

The plaintiff employee is a designer and developer of products for the plaintiff employer. As the result of an airplane crash which occurred through the alleged negligence of the defendants he was injured, and the plaintiff employer contends in the second cause of action that as a…