Ferreira v. Pisaturo

This appeal presents the issue of whether a bucket loader, claimed to have been operated negligently on a highway construction work-site by a fellow employee of the plaintiff’s decedent, was a “motor vehicle” and thus falls within an exception to the general bar against actions based on the negligence of a fellow employee created by General Stat*56utes § 31-293a.1 Section 31-293a provides that when the workers’ compensation remedy is available for an injury caused by the negligence or wrong of a fellow employee, that remedy is exclusive and “no action may be brought against such fellow employee…