A Lackawanna County judge has granted partial summary judgment to a Swedish national who claimed in a suit that after he was injured on the job, his Scranton-based former employer unlawfully forced him out of the company and, ultimately, out of the country in an attempt to escape liability.
Lackawanna County Common Pleas Court Judge Carmen D. Minora based the ruling on the theory of collateral estoppel, finding that the factual determinations of a workers’ compensation judge were sufficient to support a grant of partial summary judgment in a parallel civil suit.
