The opinion of the court was delivered by This is an action brought by an employee of a wholly owned subsidiary corporation who was injured at work. After claiming and receiving workers compensation benefits as an employee of the subsidiary, the employee brought suit against the parent corporation for benefits pursuant to the Federal Employers' Liability Act (FELA), 45 U.S.C. § 51 et seq. (1988), by alleging that the parent corporation, a railroad, was the alter ego of the subsidiary corporation. The worker claimed the separate identities of the two corporations was a fiction created to allow the parent corporation to evade its FELA obligations. The district court granted summary judgment to the parent corporation, holding that the parent corporation was not the alter ego of the subsidiary corporation and therefore could not be liable under FELA as the worker's employer. The worker appeals. Pursuant to K.S.A. 20-3018(c), this case was transferred from the Court of Appeals. In 1987, appellant Michael E. Doughty became employed by Fruit Growers Express Company (FGE) in Kansas City, Kansas. Subsequently, FGE became a wholly owned subsidiary of CSX Transportation, Inc. (CSXT). On January 2, 1992, Doughty was
