A coat checker working at Columbia University through a staffing agency could not assert a viable tort claim against the school based on a workplace fall since it qualified as her special employer and she had already received workers' compensation benefits from her direct employer, a New York appellate court ruled.
Case: Munion v. Trustees of Columbia University, No. 2014-01155, 08/27/2014, published.
Facts: Cherise Munion worked for TemPositions, a staffing agency. TemPositions sent her on an assignment to work as a coat checker at the Faculty House for Columbia University.
As she was ...
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