SCOTX Remands Employee Transportation Case For Trial

AUSTIN – In a case raising high-stakes issues of employer liability for employee travel to and from work, the Texas Supreme Court has reversed and remanded lower court rulings involving a drilling crew’s deadly motor vehicle accident.

In a 6-2 decision issued April 13, the court said Amerimex Drilling I Ltd. was not entitled to summary judgment on the vicarious-liability claim brought by the survivors of two men killed in a July 2007 crash and another who was seriously injured. The court remanded the case for trial.