The attorney for a Shawnee, Oklahoma, man who filed suit against his employer for a workplace injury says that a Pottawatomie County district judge has ruled from the bench that the state’s workers’ compensation law, as written, provides a remedy only for "unforeseeable" workplace injuries.
Judge John Canavan, Jr.’s ruling Monday – as characterized by attorney Bob Burke – would be the second nullification of exclusive remedy in less than five months. In August, a Florida circuit judge ruled that the state’s exclusive-remedy pro...
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