Antonio Williams v. Joseph Rene Esso Virgin Islands, Inc. Scott Drake John Doe, Third-Party Esso Virgin Islands, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that under Gasoline Products a new trial must extend to all issues where \the issue of damages . . . is so intertwined with liability that one cannot be submitted to the jury independently of the other without confusion and uncertainty.\
• explaining that under doctrine of respondeat superior, “[t]he employer’s liability is vicarious and secondary to that of the employee, which is primary.”
• holding that under Gasoline Products a new trial must extend to all issues where \the issue of damages . . . is so intertwined with liability that one cannot be submitted to the jury independently of the other without confusion and uncertainty.\
• “[E]ven if error as to one issue requires a new trial, it need not include other separate points that were properly decided.”
• a personal injury action against an employee and an employer to recover for injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident that occurred while the employee was driving his employer's vehicle
• intertwined nature of liability and damages requires new trial on all issues

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).