Kittell v. Vermont Weatherboard, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that workers’ compensation is the sole and exclusive remedy for employees injured in the scope of employment
• overwhelming weight of authority protects employers for misconduct short of intentional injury
• workers’ compensation system covers workplace injuries arising by “accident,” not those intended by the employer
• workers’ compensation provides exclusive remedy for work-related injury absent “specific intent to injure”
• saw injury due to employer’s willful or wanton act not sufficient intent
• requiring more than that injury be \sudden but foreseeable\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).