different-department rule. A doctrine holding that people who work for the same employer are not fellow servants if they do not do the same work or do not work in the same department. • This rule, which creates an exception to the fellow-servant doctrine, has been rejected by many jurisdictions. See FELLOW-SERVANT DOCTRINE E; fellow […]
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association theory 共同受僱人理论 根据公司中有关僱主与僱员关系的法律原理，在工作中因某一僱员的疏忽而使另一僱员遭受伤害，不免除僱主的责任；但僱员在受僱佣时已保证各自将在工作中小心谨慎、注意安全以保护自己免受因其他僱员而致的伤害者除外。美国在僱主责任法〔employers’ liability acts〕颁布后，共同受僱人〔fellow-servant〕规则已废除。 (→employers’ liability；employers’ liability acts)
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Slang. The three doctrines — contributory negligence, the fellow-servant rule, and assumption of the risk — used by 19th-century courts to deny recovery to workers injured on the job.
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