Bignell v. Wise Mechanical Contractors

How courts have described this case

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

• to warrant collateral estoppel, an issue must have been actually litigated and determined, and the determination must have been essential to the court’s decision
• “The same considerations of efficiency and fairness that limit civil plaintiffs to 'one bite of the apple’ apply equally to workers’ compensation proceedings.”
• \The same considerations of efficiency and fairness that limit civil plaintiffs to `one bite of the apple' apply equally to workers' compensation proceedings.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).