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EXCLUSIVITY OF A WORKERS’ COMPENSATION REMEDY PRECLUDED SUIT AGAINST AN EMPLOYEE OF A PERSON EMPLOYED BY PLAINTIFF’S EMPLOYER, THE NYC DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, IN THIS SLIP AND FALL CASE (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department determined the exclusivity of a Workers’ Compensation remedy precluded plaintiff’s suit against an employee who worked for someone employed by plaintiff’s employer (NYC Department of Education, DOE). Plaintiff slipped and fell on a wet floor in a school cafeteria:

Here, the New York City Department of Education (hereinafter DOE) employed Pedersen as a custodian engineer. As part of an “indirect system” of employment adopted by the DOE, Pedersen then employed Galant as a custodial assistant. Because the plaintiff was a DOE employee and Galant was employed by Pedersen, who also was a DOE employee, the plaintiff and Galant were “in the same employ” within the meaning of the Workers’ Compensation Law (Workers’ Compensation Law § 29[6] …). Therefore, Workers’ Compensation benefits were the plaintiff’s exclusive remedy with respect to Galant … . Lupton v Pedersen, 2018 NY Slip Op 01048, Second Dept 2-14-18

WORKERS’S COMPENSATION LAW (EXCLUSIVITY OF A WORKERS’ COMPENSATION REMEDY PRECLUDED SUIT AGAINST AN EMPLOYEE OF A PERSON EMPLOYED BY PLAINTIFF’S EMPLOYER, THE NYC DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, IN THIS SLIP AND FALL CASE (SECOND DEPT))/EDUCATION-SCHOOL LAW (WORKERS’ COMPENSATION, EXCLUSIVITY OF A WORKERS’ COMPENSATION REMEDY PRECLUDED SUIT AGAINST AN EMPLOYEE OF A PERSON EMPLOYED BY PLAINTIFF’S EMPLOYER, THE NYC DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, IN THIS SLIP AND FALL CASE (SECOND DEPT))/SLIP AND FALL  (WORKERS’ COMPENSATION, EXCLUSIVITY OF A WORKERS’ COMPENSATION REMEDY PRECLUDED SUIT AGAINST AN EMPLOYEE OF A PERSON EMPLOYED BY PLAINTIFF’S EMPLOYER, THE NYC DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, IN THIS SLIP AND FALL CASE (SECOND DEPT))/EMPLOYMENT LAW (NYC DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, WORKERS’ COMPENSATION, INDIRECT SYSTEM OF EMPLOYMENT, EXCLUSIVITY OF A WORKERS’ COMPENSATION REMEDY PRECLUDED SUIT AGAINST AN EMPLOYEE OF A PERSON EMPLOYED BY PLAINTIFF’S EMPLOYER, THE NYC DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, IN THIS SLIP AND FALL CASE (SECOND DEPT))/INDIRECT SYSTEM OF EMPLOYMENT (NYC DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, WORKERS’ COMPENSATION, EXCLUSIVITY OF A WORKERS’ COMPENSATION REMEDY PRECLUDED SUIT AGAINST AN EMPLOYEE OF A PERSON EMPLOYED BY PLAINTIFF’S EMPLOYER, THE NYC DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, IN THIS SLIP AND FALL CASE (SECOND DEPT))

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