The exclusive remedy provision of the Rhode Island Workers’ Compensation Act is so strong, held the state’s Supreme Court, that it shielded a co-employee from tort liability in a dangerous incident involving horseplay. The evidence indicated... Read More
A paraprofessional working at a Staten Island school, who sustained injuries when she slipped and fell on a wet floor in the school cafeteria, may not maintain a civil action in negligence against the school custodian engineer and a school custodial assistant... Read More
A Missouri appellate court held an employee could maintain a tort action against a co-employee who was allegedly negligent in the operation of the employer’s forklift; the exclusive remedy provisions of the state’s workers’ compensation... Read More
The defendant employee’s employment ended when he entered his car, drove away from an employer-controlled parking lot, and struck a co-employee who had entered a cross-walk on a street that circled the employer’s campus. Accordingly, it was... Read More
Applying New York’s rule regarding co-employee immunity—that in order for a co-employee to be shielded from liability, the co-employee must (a) have been acting within the scope of his or her employment and (b) not have been engaged in a willful... Read More
An appellate court in Washington state held that it was error for a trial court to grant summary judgment in favor of a defendant, on exclusive remedy grounds, where the plaintiff alleged he was struck by a vehicle driven by the defendant, a fellow employee... Read More
Adopting the dominant rule discussed in Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law , Ch. 111, § 111.03, the Supreme Court of Washington held that a co-employee enjoys immunity under the exclusive remedy provisions of the state’s workers’... Read More
Where an employee sustained injuries in an automobile accident that occurred in the employer’s parking lot when the vehicle he was driving was struck by another being driven by a co-employee, the co-employee was immune from tort liability under... Read More
As is the case with the majority of jurisdictions, Florida employees generally may not sue co-employees in tort where the alleged tortfeasor was acting in furtherance of the employer’s business. Co-employee immunity is limited in Florida, however... Read More
A school bus driver was not entitled to rely upon Kentucky’s fellow-immunity rule in a tort action filed against her, since there was sufficient evidence to support the jury’s finding that the defendant driver was voluntarily intoxicated at... Read More
The majority of jurisdictions provide immunity from tort liability for co-employees whose actions are within the course and scope of the employment [see Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law , § 111.03]. Arkansas has a somewhat more restrictive... Read More
Changes to section 287.120.1 lowered the burden of proof to sue a co-worker based on common law, according to the court of appeals, when it reversed a dismissal for failure to state a claim. Leeper v Asmus WD 76772 (May 27, 2014), 2014 MO App Lexis 605... Read More
Acknowledging that under N.Y. Work. Comp. Law § 29(6), it was settled law that workers’ compensation was the exclusive remedy of an employee injured by the negligence or wrong of another “in the same employ,” a New York appellate... Read More
Larson's Spotlight on Presumption of Compensability, Social Security Offset, Exclusive Remedy and Co-Employee Immunity, and Retaliatory Discharge. Larson's surveys the latest case developments that you need to know about. Thomas A. Robinson, the... Read More
An employee files an injury claim against the employer and receives a $6,000 lump sum payment in exchange for a "no liability" settlement with the employer. The settlement is subsequently approved by the Industrial Commission. May the employee... Read More