Home Depot Asks High Court to Find Exclusivity Bars Negligence Claim for Dog Bite

The exclusive remedy of workers’ compensation should preclude a Home Depot worker who was bitten by a customer’s dog from pursuing a negligence claim for allegedly failing to identify the customer, an attorney for the retailer told Pennsylvania’s high court. John Stringham, an attorney representing Home Depot and two managers at the store where Lindsay Franczyk was working when she was bitten by the dog, said during oral arguments Tuesday there was no dispute that this was a workers’ compensation claim. As such, without allegations of fraud or that the employer ex...