Black v. Labor Ready, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that defendant was estopped from invoking the exclusive remedy bar where it had successfully maintained in an earlier workers’ compensation proceeding that it was not the plaintiff’s employer and therefore was not liable for the plaintiff’s work injury
• holding appellee was judicially estopped from maintaining it was appellant’s employer in current tort action when it successfully maintained it was not appellant’s employer in prior workers’ compensation proceedings
• determining that a company was judicially estopped from claiming that it was the plaintiff’s employer, making it immune from civil suit, where the company had previously successfully maintained that it was not the plaintiff’s employer in earlier workers’ compensation proceedings
• determining that a company was judicially estopped from claiming that it was the plaintiff’s employer, making it immune from civil suit, where the company had previously successfully maintained that it was not the plaintiff’s employer in earlier workers’ compensation proceedings
• defendant was judicially estopped from claiming workers’ compensation immunity where it obtained dismissal of the plaintiff’s claim for workers’ compensation benefits by a stipulation that another company was the employer
• defendant was judicially estopped from claiming workers’ compensation immunity where it obtained dismissal of the plaintiff’s claim for workers’ compensation benefits by a stipulation that another company was the employer

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).