Faculty Handbook

8.4 LIABILITY

From Faculty Handbook Approved June 1988

The Texas Tort Claims Act and state law provide to state employees certain protection from personal liability for their negligent acts or omissions when acting in the course and scope of their employment with the university. The Tort Claims Act deals primarily with incidents arising from the operation of motor vehicles and other provisions pertaining to liability for negligence in general. In each case the state may indemnify an employee for his/her negligence to a limit of $100,000 per person and $300,000 for a single occurrence for personal injury or death and to a limit of $10,000 for property damage, so long as there in no finding of bad faith. The Office of the Attorney General of Texas provides the legal defense in such cases, and should an incident occur where litigation is threatened or commenced against an employee of the university, such employee should immediately consult the university counsel.

Top of page

Usablenet Assistive is a UsableNet product. Usablenet Assistive Main Page.