A narrowly tailored ruling from the New Castle County Superior Court in a matter of first impression has defined volunteer firefighters as state employees for the purposes of the Workers’ Compensation Act and the immunity from suit that goes along with it.
Judge Jerome O. Herlihy reached this conclusion in his June 4 opinion in Larson v. Mill Creek Fire Co. and granted summary judgment in favor of Les Brown and Aaron Olicker, two of the defendants who worked for Mill Creek. Brown was a volunteer and Olicker was a paid firefighter.
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