A New York appellate court ruled that a trial justice should have referred a dispute over a worker’s death in a car accident to the Workers’ Compensation Board to determine if her death was compensable.
Case: Lin v. Lu, No. 2023-01011, 01/22/2025, published.
Facts and procedural history: Xiu Rong Yang sustained fatal injuries when a vehicle in which she was a passenger drove off a roadway during a snowstorm.
The administrator of Yang’s estate filed a wrongful death action against Xiaoping Lu.
Lu moved for summary judgment to dismiss the complaint, arguing that Yang ...
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