The Georgia Court of Appeals will be tasked with deciding if the exclusive remedy provision of the state Workers’ Compensation Act bars claims brought by the estate of an employee suing a company for negligence after a deceased worker was ”hunted down and shot” by another employee at work.

“This appeal will provide clarity on the jurisdictional elements of the worker’s compensation exclusionary framework as well as potential instruction regarding which cases are appropriately heard outside of the worker’s compensation framework,” said plaintiff-appellant counsel Daniel Beer of Smith Beer. “We believe that this case, and others similarly situated to it, were never intended to be heard by the Worker’s Compensation Board—which significantly limits remedies.”