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Connecticut: Widow Who Discovers Husband’s Lifeless Body May Not Recover Emotional Distress Claim Against Employer

August 04, 2016 (1 min read)

A widow, who discovered her husband’s lifeless body crushed beneath an all-terrain vehicle that he had been repairing at his employer’s facility—she had intended to bring him his lunch—may not recover in her bystander emotional distress action filed against her husband’s employer, held the Supreme Court of Connecticut. The high court stressed that the exclusive remedy provisions of the state’s Workers’ Compensation Act were broad and sweeping; her claim was derivative of her husband’s injury and, accordingly, it was barred.

Thomas A. Robinson, J.D., the Feature National Columnist for the LexisNexis%20Workers’%20Compensation%20eNewsletter">LexisNexis Workers’ Compensation eNewsletter, is the co-author of Larson’s%20Workers’%20Compensation%20Law">Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law (LexisNexis).

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See Velecela v. All Habitat Servs., LLC, 2016 Conn. LEXIS 233 (to be released Aug. 9, 2016)

See generally Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law, § 101.02.

Source: Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law, the nation’s leading authority on workers’ compensation law

For a more detailed discussion of the case, see

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