Bon Appetit Cleared of Brain Injury Suit by Oberlin Professor

Bon Appetit Management Company isn’t liable for an Oberlin College professor’s traumatic brain injury caused by a wall partition that fell on her head in a campus dining hall, the Sixth Circuit said.

The food service provider had no premises liability under Ohio law because it didn’t have the right to admit or exclude people from the dining area, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit said Aug. 19.

The agreement with Oberlin made clear Bon Appetit doesn’t hold a lease or license to the building, may not exclude Oberlin-authorized representatives from the dining hall, and that Oberlin ...