Ewing v. Koppers Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that discharging an employee for filing a worker's compensation claim contravenes clear mandate of public policy
• holding that discharging an employee for filing a worker’s compensation claim contravenes clear mandate of public policy
• holding that a wrongful discharge action lies for terminating at-will employee solely because he filed a workers’ compensation claim
• holding that a claim for wrongful discharge may also be asserted by a contractual employee
• holding that “it would be illogical to deny [a contractual employee] access to the courts equal to that afforded [an] at will employee”
• holding that the tort of wrongful discharge is also available to contractual employees

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).