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YOUR JOB, AFTER ALL
Q: I was struck by a vehicle owned and operated by a driver for a delivery
service, which had an agreement with a supermarket to make home deliveries for
customers of the supermarket. He was delivering groceries for the supermarket
at the time of the accident. Who should I sue?I was a security officer. While
patrolling a hallway at a manufacturing plant, I slipped in a puddle and fell. I had
not seen the water in the hallway prior to my fall, but upon falling I realized that
my clothing was wet and sensed that water had been seeping from a large metal
container that was used by the owner’s personnel in the manufacturing process.
My supervisor says that he found no water on the floor in that area, but
admits that the owner’s personnel would put water in the containers and that
sometimes there was water on the floor as a result of cleaning work.
A fellow security officer says that she patrolled the same area about 2
hours before I did, and saw no water at all.
A: Because you were a security officer, the owner’s attorney may contend
that you had been hired to detect precisely such a condition as this water, and
accordingly should not be permitted to recover. Nevertheless, even if the owner
can establish that you were hired for such purposes as detecting a water spill, it is
not at all certain that this would serve to insulate the owner from liability.
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