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· 1/12/1989

Alphonso Chinnery v. Government of the Virgin Islands

Citations

  • 865 F.2d 68
  • 4 I.E.R. Cas. (BNA) 30
  • 1989 U.S. App. LEXIS 185

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • “When an employee’s injury is compensable under a workers’ compensation statute, by reason of exclusive remedy provisions ... the employer is not liable for negligence at common law.”
  • where employee suffered a physical injury compensable under the WCA, it “does not matter that [he] also suffered mental or nervous injuries”

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Judges: Greenberg, Scirica, Weis

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