High Court Hears Dispute on whether IRCA Trumps Exclusivity

New York's highest court last week heard oral argument in a dispute about whether an employer that violated federal immigration law by hiring two undocumented aliens lost its exclusive-remedy protection from claims filed by those workers after they were injured at work.The case is New York Hospital Medical Center of Queens v. Microtech Contracting Corp., No. APL-2013-00073.The Hospital Medical Center of Queens hired Microtech Contracting to perform work on its property. Two of Microtech's employees, who were undocumented aliens, were injured on the job. Microtech provided them with wor...