The Pennsylvania Supreme Court is poised to decide just how far the exclusivity provision of the Workers' Compensation Act can reach. The debate addresses whether employees can sue their bosses for defamation and malicious abuse of process. The case at hand deals with an employee who allegedly threatened to kill her co-workers and supervisors. Under the decision, the petition says, "an employer must choose between protecting [its] employees or facing an avalanche of lawsuits brought by former employees."
August 30, 1999 at 12:00 AM
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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court is poised to decide just how far the exclusivityprovision of the Workers’ Compensation Act can reach.
The high court has agreed to hear the debate over whether employees cansue their bosses for defamation and malicious abuse of process.
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