Nichols v. Benco Plastics, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• general statute dealing with wife’s right to sue for loss of consortium does not override special provision of Workmen’s Compensation Act
• intent of workmen's compensation act was to take \away the right of dependents to sue at common law `or otherwise'\; Larson, The Law of Workmen's Compensation, § 66.20 (1983
• \The legislature may abolish remedies recognized at common law and create new ones to attain permissible legislative object.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).