High Courts Define Scope of Work Comp Exclusivity

The “grand bargain” at the heart of workers’ compensation systems has been a major topic among the states’ highest courts in recent months, with California, Iowa, Alabama and Pennsylvania all issuing decisions addressing the scope of their respective exclusive remedy laws.  California Earlier this month, the California Supreme Court ruled that exclusivity would not prohibit a spouse from pursuing a negligence claim against an employer if a worker contracts COVID-19 in the workplace and brings it home to his family. In California, as in every other state, wo...