High Court Says Retaliatory Firing Illegal Only if Employer is Trying to Avoid Liability for Claim

The Indiana Supreme Court held that a trial court should have dismissed a teacher's case alleging she was fired in retaliation for contemplating filing a workers' compensation claim because she failed to allege the district was exclusveily motivated by a desire not to pay the claim. A jury concluded that the South Bend Community School Corp. illegally fired Connie Grabowski in retaliation for a potential workers' compensation claim and awarded her $600,000 in damages. But the high court said the case should have been dismissed because the claim didn't fit into the narrow excep...