Report: Exclusivity Thwarts Efforts to Compensate Teachers for School Shootings

Lawmakers might have overlooked the fact that workers' compensation is the exclusive remedy for injuries arising from employment when they passed a law allowing teachers to sue school districts over school shootings, according to a report by the Colorado Sun. Eric Sinclair, a dean at East High School in Denver who was shot and injured by a student in 2023, filed a lawsuit pursuant to the 2015 Claire Davis School Safety Act. A judge in March dismissed the claim, citing exclusivity. The judge was reportedly not persuaded by the argument that the decision rendered the school shooting law me...