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· 6/9/1994

Roe v. LAWN AETNA CASUALTY & SURETY CO.

Citations

  • 634 N.E.2d 117
  • 418 Mass. 66

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that where a passenger on a bus was sexually assaulted by the bus driver, the common carrier’s implied promise of safe passage was sufficient to establish a caused connection between the motor vehicle use and the injury constituting an “accident”
  • discussing whether a sexual assault committed by a busline employee and occurring within a school bus owned and operated by a common passenger carrier should be deemed to have arisen out of the “ownership, maintenance or use” of that vehicle
  • sexual assault of a passenger on a school bus by the bus driver held to have arisen out of the “ownership, maintenance or use” of the bus
  • bus driver’s sexual assault on school bus passenger arose out of use of bus
  • “there must be a causal connection between a motor vehicle’s use and an injury for the injury to be deemed to have arisen out of the ownership, maintenance, or use of the motor vehicle”
  • “there must be a causal connection between a motor vehicle’s use and an injury for the injury to be deemed to have arisen out of the ownership, maintenance, or use of the motor vehicle”

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Judges: Liacos, Wilkins, Abrams, Lynch, O'Connor

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