Wyoming Personal Injury Case Law
Please find, below, selected case laws decided by Supreme Court of Wyoming or Court of Appeals of Wyoming where the terms personal injury or related terms have been mentioned. These cases are not necessarily personal injury and may include cases where the facts or court decision merely mentions personal injury related legal terms. You are not to rely on these cases as legal advice nor should you rely on them for accuracy. Please see Terms of Service.
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Dellapenta v. Dellapenta - 8/26/1992
In this appeal we consider the issues of parent-child immunity in negligence actions and the admissibility of evidence of seat belt nonuse. Appellant Louis Dellapenta appeals the trial court's denial of his Motion for Judgment...
Hansen v. Mr. D's Food Center - 3/4/1992
The basic question raised in this appeal is whether there is substantial evidence to sustain worker's compensation benefits awarded by the hearing examiner. Incidental to the determination of that question is whether the decision of...
West v. Wyoming State Treasurer - 12/20/1991
Appellant sought a declaratory judgment that she was not required to reimburse, out of a third party $399,000 wrongful death recovery, two-thirds of the $72,316.51 worker's compensation benefits paid to decedent's survivor...
Northern Utilities v. Evansville - 12/10/1991
This appeal presents tort damage derived claims for contribution, indemnity, and subrogation. At issue is the public gas utility's status as a joint tort-feasor, its extent of potential liability, and whether it made a settlement...
Worden v. Village Homes - 12/3/1991
This was an action in which appellant, Bernice Worden, sought to recover claimed damages to her more than ten-year-old dwelling house resulting from a construction defect of appellee, Village Homes, which defect appellee, City of...
Colley v. Dyer - 12/2/1991
This case concerns an appeal in a wrongful death action taken by appellant, Alice Ione Halstead Colley and those she represents, against appellee, Teddy Ray Dyer, from a district court order dismissing the complaint upon the grounds of...
Dye v. Fremont County School Dist. 24 - 11/19/1991
Suzanne Dye appeals the W.R.C.P. 12(b)(1) and (6) dismissal of her personal injury suit against Fremont County School District No. 24. Dismissal resulted from her mother's failure to file a timely notice of claim with the school...
Dougherty v. J.w. Williams - 11/13/1991
Appellant Patrick F. Dougherty filed a worker's compensation claim, alleging he injured his back while he was working for Appellee J.W. Williams, Inc. Williams objected to the claim. The hearing examiner determined that Dougherty...
Allmaras v. Mudge - 11/8/1991
Appellant, Joseph Allmaras (Allmaras), father and personal representative of the estate of John David Allmaras, by suit for wrongful death, appeals from a summary judgment granted to Kloefkorn-Ballard Construction/Development, Inc....
Mckennan v. Wyoming Sawmills - 9/16/1991
Appellant Susan McKennan, personal representative of the estate of Terry Don McKennan (McKennan), brought suit alleging that Terry McKennan's employment with appellee Wyoming Sawmills, Inc., was unlawful in that he was required to work...
Cardenas v. State - 5/23/1991
Appellant Thomas Cardenas appeals from his convictions for attempted first-degree sexual assault and aggravated assault and battery.
We affirm.
Appellant raises the following issues:
I. Whether due process,...
Gibson v. State Through Dept. of Revenue - 5/22/1991
Appellants Sandra Rae Gibson, as the personal representative of the estate of April Dawn Gibson, and Stephen W. Lewis, as the personal representative of the estate of Crystal Lynette Lewis, seek review of an order of the district court...
Divenere v. University of Wyoming - 5/10/1991
Appellants, Vince and Margo DiVenere, sought damages pursuant to the Wyoming Governmental Claims Act (GCA), W.S. 1-39-101 through 1-39-120, alleging that Mrs. DiVenere was injured when she slipped and fell on an icy patch on the...
Apodaca v. Ommen - 3/18/1991
Appellant, Vincent Apodaca, appeals from orders of the district court which dismissed his complaint of medical malpractice against appellees, Archie Kirsch, M.D., a contract physician for the Wyoming State Penitentiary, and Janet...
State Ex Rel. Workers' Comp. v. Girardot - 3/14/1991
Appellee Lorance I. Girardot, age sixty-two, had an unknown and potentially life threatening coronary artery condition initially discovered when he was examined for surgery for a work related hernia. Expensive coronary artery surgery...
Rodabaugh v. Ross - 3/11/1991
The question sought to be raised in this case by virtue of the certification of a constitutional question pursuant to § 1-13-101, W.S. 1977 (June 1988 Repl.), and Rule 52(c), W.R.C.P., is whether Wyo. Const. art. 10, § 4, forecloses...
Mills v. Reynolds - 3/11/1991
Rehearing Granted May 6, 1991.
The primary question that must be resolved in this case is whether Wyo. Const. art. 10, § 4 forecloses the legislature from extending the immunity of employers to co-employees acting within the...
Drew v. Lejay's Sportmen's Cafe - 3/4/1991
In this appeal we determine the nature and scope of the duty of care which a restaurant owner owes to a customer who chokes on food and is in imminent need of medical attention. Appellant Wauneta Drew filed a wrongful death action...
Coulthard v. Cossairt - 12/14/1990
Appellant Max Coulthard appeals a $1.7 million award to appellee Garth Cossairt for injuries Cossairt sustained when Coulthard's vehicle went off a mountain road in Albany County. Cossairt, joined by another plaintiff in the...
Calkins v. Boydston - 8/29/1990
Appellant Terry G. Calkins brought this action in the trial court against appellees Gerald Boydston and Marinell Boydston for injuries suffered when his leg was caught in the drive shaft of a pump unit. At the time of the injury...
Sawyer v. City of Sheridan - 6/25/1990
Municipal government damage immunity in a lawsuit asserting that appellee, City of Sheridan, was negligent in requiring the use of iron pipe in a mobile home village owned by appellants, Thomas A. and Loeva Sawyer, d/b/a Wong Village...
Miller v. Rissler & Mcmurry Co. - 6/13/1990
Larry Eugene Miller was killed when the vehicle in which he was riding failed to negotiate a curve in a service road north of Douglas, Wyoming. Appellant, the personal representative of the deceased's estate, brought this wrongful...
Banda v. State Ex Rel. Workers' Comp. - 3/28/1990
Sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the decision of the Worker's Compensation hearing examiner denying a permanent total disability claim provides the issue for this appeal. We affirm the denial of this successive claim filed to...
Brebaugh v. Hales - 3/15/1990
J.W. "Jack" Brebaugh (Brebaugh) received injuries on January 6, 1986, while working on a "splicing" procedure on a conveyor belt in an underground coal mine near Hanna, Wyoming. He was employed by Carbon County Coal Company...
Miller v. Murdock - 3/13/1990
Russell Eugene Miller (Miller), personal representative of the estate of his son, John Scott Miller, appeals from a jury verdict for defendant Charles A. Murdock (Murdock), personal representative of his son, William R. "Billy"...
Gooder v. Roth - 3/12/1990
This cause is before the court upon a writ of certiorari. Petitioners, the defendants in a medical malpractice action, challenge an order of the district court granting respondents a partial judgment in that suit on the issue of...
White v. State - 12/19/1989
Appellant, Eugene White, brought an action to recover damages for personal injury against the Wyoming Highway Department. The district court granted the Highway Department's summary judgment motion, holding that appellant's cause of...
Continental Insurance v. Page Engineering Co. - 12/5/1989
The essential determination that the court must make in this case is whether tort theories may be invoked by a purchaser of a product in an instance in which the failure of the product causes damage only to the product that failed...
Moncrief v. Sohio Petroleum Co. - 6/16/1989
This appeal and cross-appeal arises from an action brought by appellants W.A. Moncrief, Jr. and Charles Taubman seeking specific performance of an alleged contractual obligation on the part of appellees Sohio Petroleum Company; BHP...
Engle v. State - 5/31/1989
Mark E. Engle (appellant), an unemployed twenty-four year old transient, was sentenced for felony auto theft, and his appeal now presents procedural and documentary sufficiency for judicial determination of either his competency to...
Poulos v. Hpc - 12/8/1988
Appellant Carol L. Poulos, the personal representative of the estate of her deceased son, Shawn Poulos, appeals from the district court's order granting summary judgment to all appellee-defendants in this wrongful death action. The...
Tader v. Tader - 6/5/1987
The question whether inter-spousal tort immunity should be abrogated in Wyoming comes to this court from trial court entry of a partial summary judgment in favor of the defendant husband. We answer the question in the affirmative and...
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