DIFFERENT-DEPARTMENT RULE

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 servant under SERVANT. [Blacks Law 8th]