431 Pa. Super. 366 - Ducjai v. Dennis’s Empirical Analysis

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24 state decisions

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1. “[T]hese changes in the law were intended by the legislature to proclaim the supremacy of the [Act’s] exclusivity provision and to reaffirm the principle that an employee may not seek double recovery for a work-related injury. The legislature has tried time and again to make it clear that worker[s’] compensation benefits are to be the exclusive remedy for employment-related injuries, save for those intentionally inflicted.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Gardner v. Erie Insurance · Ducaji v. Dennis

2. “While we can speculate that the legislature was more interested in fellow employe immunity for on-premises accidents due to negligence where the negligent employe is not likely to have liability insurance coverage, and we are aware that the employe’s automobile carrier here benefits rather than the employer’s compensation carrier, nevertheless we are not free to rephrase clear language of a statute in aid of a plaintiff even in circumstances like those in this case where this might open an avenue to a more equitable result. We read the amending Act as clearly phrased to protect all co-employes in all situations where negligent conduct of one employe may cause injury to a fellow employe, provided only that the injury in question is one that is compensa-ble under the act.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 456 Pa. Super. 563 - Gardner v. Erie Insurance

3. “Summary judgment is properly granted where ‘the pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, and admission on file, together with the affidavits, if any, show that there is no genuine issue of material fact and that the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law’---- ‘The record must be viewed in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party, and all doubts as to the existence of a genuine issue of material fact must be resolved against the moving party’____ Summary judgment may be entered only in those cases where the right is clear and free from doubt.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ducaji v. Dennis