Michaels v. Anglo American Auto Auctions, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a cause of action for retaliatory discharge was not barred by the WCA’s exclusivity provision
• holding that a claim for reinstatement and civil penalty under Act is not exclusive
• recognizing an implied cause of action based on the public policy embodied in a statute that proscribed certain conduct but did not explicitly provide for a private cause of action to sue over said conduct
• comparing severe limitations on relief available under workers’ compensation statutes with relief possible from the tort of retaliatory discharge and holding that the former did not preclude a separate lawsuit in tort
• statute permitting limited recovery when employer retaliates against worker for filing workers’ compensation claim establishes policy forming basis of common-law claim for more extensive recovery
• employee who alleges wrongful discharge in retaliation for filing workers’ compensation claim is not barred by exclusivity provisions of Workers’ Compensation Act

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).