The Supreme Court of Utah noted that although the intentional tort exception to workers’ compensation exclusivity clearly applied to claims governed by the state’s Workers’ Compensation Act (WCA), the issue had never been decided for... Read More

Utilizing the co-employee “intentional injury” exception to Alabama’s exclusive remedy rule [see Ala. Code § 25-5-11(b)], the Supreme Court of Alabama affirmed a trial court’s decision to grant summary judgment in favor of... Read More

A Mississippi appellate court affirmed a state trial court's decision granting summary judgment to the state, as employer, on workers' compensation exclusive remedy grounds following the fatal shooting of a state Gaming Commission employee during... Read More

Construing Louisiana law, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, in an unpublished decision, agreed with a federal district court that a former employee could not maintain a civil action against two former employers based on his theory that work-related... Read More

Where an employee was killed in a trench collapse accident, his estate could not maintain an intentional tort action against the employer where the evidence indicated the employer ceased all work on the trench when the employer's supervisors became... Read More

A tort action filed by a worker who had been assigned to a firm that utilized forklifts in its warehouse area cannot proceed since the worker's exclusive remedy was pursuant to the New Jersey Workers' Compensation Act, held a state appellate court... Read More

The mother of a 14-year-old part-time farm worker, who suffered fatal injuries in an unwitnessed roll-over accident involving a piece of heavy machinery, may not maintain a civil action against the farm owner, held a New York appellate court. Affirming... Read More

The Supreme Court of Texas, providing a clear and exhaustive discussion of the state's special utilization of the so-called "substantially certain" standard to be utilized in intentional tort actions filed by employees against their employers... Read More

A trial court was correct in finding that a plaintiff-employee had failed to establish an issue of fact in his intentional tort civil action filed against the employer following a serious injury in which the worker's leg was severed above his knee... Read More

A former law firm security officer may not maintain a civil action against his former employer for alleged Title VII discrimination, wrongful termination, and “pain and suffering” injuries allegedly suffered by the plaintiff following an altercation... Read More

In a decision that is likely to have broad and long-reaching ramifications, a divided Supreme Court of Idaho, following a rehearing in a case decided one year earlier, threw out its earlier decision and adopted a rule that allows an injured employee to... Read More

An Iowa appellate court, following the “narrow” exception to co-employee immunity established in Thompson v. Bohlken , 312 N.W.2d 501, 505 (Iowa 1981), held that a state trial court was correct when it granted a defendant/co-employee a judgment... Read More

Construing New Jersey’s “substantially certain” rule, as applied to intentional tort claims filed against employers and co-employees, a state appellate court held that a former employee of a pharmaceutical company could not move forward... Read More

An injured worker, who sustained catastrophic injuries that initially rendered him comatose and which ultimately resulted in significant behavioral and memory deficits, including deficits in executive functioning, problem solving, planning, and balance... Read More

Construing Minnesota law, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a federal district court’s decision to grant summary judgment in favor of a Minnesota school district that had been sued by a teacher who sustained serious injuries when he attempted... Read More