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Pending California Case Could Upend Workers’ Compensation “Exclusive Remedy” for COVID-19 Claims
One silver lining for employers during the pandemic has been the reality that they shouldn’t fear any potential tort liability for COVID-19 cases stemming from the workplace – or should they? Most…www.fisherphillips.com
That is interesting, thanks for posting. (I was more thinking of customers - but it was a very interesting read anyway).
I guess it remains to be seen how much a CA trial court's ruling of law will have in the longer term, and on other states, but I guess someone had to be the one to try it - who better than a los angeles area trial judge.
With the sheer volume of US employees who got - and suffered, in some way - from COVID, and the limitless amount of arguing that could go on regarding the minute details of sanitization or protection protocols, it seems the whole nation would collapse under the weight of the water from such a large floodgate. Even CA would need to fine-tune their new little legal theory to limit that one.