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Dual Employment Status Bars Double Recovery

Workers' Compensation

The “exclusivity doctrine,” permitting a complete recovery of damages against an employer, limits an injured worker’s benefit recovery to the compensation system, barring an intentional tort. In August 2016, the worker slipped and fell on a pre-manufactured six-and-a-half-foot metal ramp that descended from the loading dock.