Add to ORKGThe City of Knoxville owned and operated a municipal airport under authority of a state statute which permitted a municipality to acquire, maintain, and operate a municipal airport in its governmental capacity, and which barred suits against the municipality with respect to its operation of the airport. The city carried a policy of liability insurance covering it in the ownership and operation of the airport. Plaintiff was injured by a fall at the airport terminal building, and instituted a negligence action against the city. The city moved for dismissal, relying upon the immunity given it by the statute. Held, motion to dismiss overruled. The city waived its immunity to suit to the extent of the insurance carried by it at the time of the a...
Poniatowski v. City of New York, 14 N.Y.2d 76, 198 N.E.2d 237, 248 N.Y.S.2d 849 (1964)
The defendant, the city of Green Bay, without charge maintained and operated a toboggan slide outsid...
Actions alleging municipal tort liability for negligent administration of building and zoning codes ...
According to a well-established common law rule, a municipal corporation is immune to tort liability...
Plaintiff\u27s decedent was killed by a fall down the elevator shaft of a building owned and maintai...
There is hardly a legal doctrine so universally criticized as municipal tort immunity, which is at t...
The Act declares the public policy of the State to be that municipal corporations are immune from li...
This article will focus on ... what has been termed the liability crisis in local government. More...
Enghauser Manufacturing Co. v. Eriksson Engineering Ltd., 6 Ohio St. 3d 31, 451 N.E.2d 228 (1983)
Plaintiff sued the Town of Cocoa Beach for damages for the alleged wrongful death of her husband. Pl...
Plaintiff, while in the bathhouse of a municipally owned and operated swimming pool, was injured by ...
The Court of Appeals of Washington has held that liability for damages against a municipality must b...
A city failed to replace a damaged traffic signal. A motorist entered the intersection against the i...
The Supreme Court of Nebraska has assumed an active role in eliminating governmental tort immunity b...
American law has long afforded the state and its subdivisions of government an immunity from liabili...
Poniatowski v. City of New York, 14 N.Y.2d 76, 198 N.E.2d 237, 248 N.Y.S.2d 849 (1964)
The defendant, the city of Green Bay, without charge maintained and operated a toboggan slide outsid...
Actions alleging municipal tort liability for negligent administration of building and zoning codes ...
According to a well-established common law rule, a municipal corporation is immune to tort liability...
Plaintiff\u27s decedent was killed by a fall down the elevator shaft of a building owned and maintai...
There is hardly a legal doctrine so universally criticized as municipal tort immunity, which is at t...
The Act declares the public policy of the State to be that municipal corporations are immune from li...
This article will focus on ... what has been termed the liability crisis in local government. More...
Enghauser Manufacturing Co. v. Eriksson Engineering Ltd., 6 Ohio St. 3d 31, 451 N.E.2d 228 (1983)
Plaintiff sued the Town of Cocoa Beach for damages for the alleged wrongful death of her husband. Pl...
Plaintiff, while in the bathhouse of a municipally owned and operated swimming pool, was injured by ...
The Court of Appeals of Washington has held that liability for damages against a municipality must b...
A city failed to replace a damaged traffic signal. A motorist entered the intersection against the i...
The Supreme Court of Nebraska has assumed an active role in eliminating governmental tort immunity b...
American law has long afforded the state and its subdivisions of government an immunity from liabili...
Poniatowski v. City of New York, 14 N.Y.2d 76, 198 N.E.2d 237, 248 N.Y.S.2d 849 (1964)
The defendant, the city of Green Bay, without charge maintained and operated a toboggan slide outsid...
Actions alleging municipal tort liability for negligent administration of building and zoning codes ...