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Hunt Construction Group, Inc. v. Garrett, No. 49S02-1106-CT-36, ___ N.E.2d ___ (Ind., March 22, 2012).

March 22, 2012 Filed Under: Civil Tagged With: B. Dickson, F. Sullivan, Supreme

Sullivan, J.
An employee of a concrete subcontractor was injured in a workplace accident during the construction of Lucas Oil Stadium. She seeks to recover damages for negligence from the project’s construction manager by whom she was not employed but whom she contends had a legal duty of care for jobsite-employee safety. Because we find that the construction manager did not have, either by the terms of its contracts or by its actions, such a legal duty, we hold that the construction manager may not be held liable to the worker for negligence.
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We hold that for a construction manager not otherwise obligated by contract to provide jobsite safety to assume a legal duty of care for jobsite-employee safety, the construction manager must undertake specific supervisory responsibilities beyond those set forth in the original construction documents. In the case before us today, there is no contention that Hunt undertook any such responsibilities, at least for any part of the project on which Garrett was working.
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Shepard, C.J., and Rucker and David, JJ., concur.
Dickson, J., dissents, believing that the duty of care owed by the construction manager is a mixed question of fact and law, and that, under the facts of this case, material issues of fact exist that preclude summary judgment for either party.
 

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