The Charleston Daily Mail advocated for the passage of House Bill 2011, aimed at clarifying the state’s law that takes away immunity from lawsuits for a workplace injury if the employer acted with “deliberate intent” in causing the injury.
The original version of House Bill 2011 contained a provision for an additional requirement to prove an employer’s deliberate intent, involving a required report by a government agency for businesses that are regulated by such an agency. But during a House Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday on the bill, Rep. John Shott, one of the...
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