Lawton v. Alpine Engineered Products, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an employer does not commit an intentional tort when he instructs his employee to operate dangerous machinery without warning the employee about the machinery's known hazards
• not an intentional tort when employer instructs employee to operate dangerous machinery without warning the employee about the machinery's known hazards
• must prove that employer deliberately intended to injure or was substantially certain that the result would occur; substantial certainty requires more than a strong probability of injury, it requires virtual certainty

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