Bright v. Nimmo

How courts have described this case

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• 15% penalty if “not paid within 14 days after becoming due” unless “owing to conditions beyond control of the employer”
• 15 percent penalty for late payment and award of attorney’s fees evidence that legislature intended exclusive remedy under act
• workers’ compensation act’s penalties for delayed payments bar action against insurer or employer
• adverse financial consequences from the intentional delay of workers’ compensation payments does not give rise to an independent cause of action against the employer or its insurer where penalties for such delay are provided by the act
• adverse financial consequences from the intentional delay of workers' compensation payments does not give rise to an independent cause of action against the employer or its insurer where penalties for such delay are provided by the act
• limits of liability extend to insurer as well as employer

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).