Houston v. Bechtel Associates Professional Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• observing that “[t]he courts have ... carved out an exception to exclusive liability provisions where the injury inflicted is the result of an intentional act”
• \nothing short of specific intent to injure\ falls outside scope of Federal Workers' Compensation scheme, relying on Professor Larson's treatise
• observing “[t]he courts have . . . carved out an exception to exclusive liability provisions where the injury inflicted is the result of an intentional act”
• for punitive damages, tort must be aggravated by evil motive, actual malice, deliberate violence or oppression
• for punitive damages, tort must be aggravated by evil motive, actual malice, deliberate violence or oppression
• employee alleging willful, wanton and reckless exposure to silica dust could not maintain common law action

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).