Mounteer v. Utah Power & Light Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that \[c]ommon law rules of agency and respondeat superior\ govern an employer's liability for the alleged defamatory statements of an employee who was not named as a defendant
• providing that a claim for negligent infliction of emotion distress claim “would clearly come within the purview of the [Utah] Workers’ Compensation Act”
• ruling on rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim
• holding tort claims to recover for damage to reputation are not preempted by the UWCA, even if caused in the course of employment, because the UWCA does not compensate reputational injuries
• stating that “[u]nless plaintiff can prove that [the employer] intended or directed [the harasser’s actions], his damages arising from any emotional distress can be compensated only under the workers’ compensation scheme”
• barring a claim for emotional distress while permitting a slander claim because slander does not require proof of mental or physical injury

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).