FRANKIE ANTOINE VS. DOES 1 TO 10

Matter on the Law & Motion / Discovery calendar for Tuesday, September 16, 2025, Line 6. DEFENDANT WAYMO LLC's DEMURRER to COMPLAINT.

Defendant Waymo LLC's demurrer to plaintiff Frankie Antoine's complaint is sustained with leave to amend.

Antoine pleads a motor vehicle negligence cause of action against Waymo. He asserts that he was driving while working for "Transdev-Waymo-Google" and that he was "rear ended by [a] hit & run driver." The court takes this to assert negligence by the hit-and-run driver, but any contention he has that Waymo was negligent is not clear.

Moreover, the "California's Workers' Compensation Act (Lab.Code, section 3600 et seq.) provides an employee's exclusive remedy against his or her employer for injuries arising out of and in the course of employment." (Melendrez v. Ameron Internat. Corp. (2015) 240 Cal.App.4th 632, 638 [citation simplified].) If he is suing Waymo as his employer for injuries that occurred in the course of his employment, workers' compensation is his exclusive remedy.

Antoine has not opposed the demurrer and it is not clear that granting leave to amend would be futile. The court grants leave to amend; any amendment must be filed within 20 days of notice of entry of this order.

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