Legal Opinion
Hunt Construction Group, Inc. v. Garrett
Indiana Supreme Court
Decided March 22, 2012No. 49S02-1106-CT-365PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SULLIVAN, Justice.
An employee of a concrete subcontractor was injured in a workplace accident during the construction of Lucas Oil Stadium. She seeks to recover damages for negligence from the project’s construction manager by whom she was not employed but whom she contends had a legal duty of care for jobsite-employee safety. Because we find that the construction manager did not have, either by the terms of its contracts or by its actions, such a legal duty, we hold that the construction manager may not be held liable to the worker for negligence.
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