Knox v. Combined Insurance Co. of America

How courts have described this case

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• remanding a sexual harassment case to the trial court for additional fact finding to determine whether the plaintiffs common law claims are within the scope of the Workers’ Compensation Act
• Maine Supreme Judicial Court ruled that as a matter of law employees could recover under the Workers’ Compensation Act for injuries, both mental and physical, stemming from sexual harassment.
• sexual assault and sexual harassment torts may be compensable under the Workers’ Compensation Act if sufficiently work-related
• it is possible for sexual harassment injuries to arise out of employment, so that such injuries would be compensable under Maine’s workers’ compensation act and subject to its exclusivity provision
• remanding sexual assault claim for fact-finding regarding potential MWCA immunity

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).