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DEFENDANTS ARGUED PLAINTIFF WAS NOT AN EMPLOYEE IN THE WORKERS’ COMPENSATION PROCEEDING; HERE THE DEFENDANTS ARGUED PLAINTIFF WAS AN EMPLOYEE AND HIS REMEDY WAS LIMITED TO WORKERS’ COMPENSATION; THE DOCTRINE OF JUDICIAL ESTOPPEL PRECLUDED THE WORKERS’ COMPENSATION AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSE IN THIS ACTION (THIRD DEPT).

The Third Department, reversing (modifying) Supreme Court, over a dissent, determined the judicial estoppel doctrine applied and plaintiff’s motion to dismiss the workers’ compensation affirmative defense in this personal injury action should have been granted. Plaintiff was injured on the job. In the Workers’ Compensation proceeding defendants argued plaintiff was an not an employee. In this action defendants argued he was an employee and his recovery is limited to Workers’ Compensation:

… [T]he record makes clear that defendants, through Old Republic [insurance company], consistently advanced in the Workers’ Compensation Law proceeding the theory that plaintiff was not its employee. Old Republic, as the workers’ compensation carrier for defendants, was subsequently discharged from this proceeding. As such, defendants achieved its desired result after asserting the lack of an employer-employee relationship. Although the record is not explicit as to the basis for the discharge of Old Republic from the Workers’ Compensation Law proceeding, “[t]he policy behind judicial estoppel would not be served by limiting its application to cases where the legal position at issue was ruled upon in the context of a judgment” … .

In this action … defendants have taken a contrary position — i.e., plaintiff was employed by defendants as a special employee and, therefore, his sole remedy for compensation was to pursue workers’ compensation benefits. Allowing defendants to argue in this action that plaintiff was their employee, after they had disavowed an employer-employee relationship in the Workers’ Compensation Law proceeding and received a benefit from this position, would subvert the equitable policy behind the doctrine of judicial estoppel … . Walker v GlaxoSmithKline, LLC, 2022 NY Slip Op 00484, Third Dept 1-27-22

 

January 27, 2022
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