Worker Attacked Over Nationality Cannot Sue For Negligence, Federal Court Decides

Though U.S. circuit judges extinguished a negligence suit by a flight crewmember whose coworker drunkenly attacked him, that may have cleared the crewmember’s way to win before the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission, a Chicago claimants’ attorney says. Martyn Baylay cannot sue his employer, Etihad Airways, over his attack by Saravdeep Mann because his exclusive remedy is the workers’ compensation system, U.S. Circuit Judge Michael Kanne wrote in Wednesday’s decision in Baylay v. Etihad Airways. In reaching the decision, Kanne outlined why Baylay’s i...