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· 5/31/1985

Searcy v. Paul

Citations

  • 478 N.E.2d 1275
  • 20 Mass. App. Ct. 134
  • 69 A.L.R. 4th 187
  • 1985 Mass. App. LEXIS 1783

How courts have described this case

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  • no basis to disregard the corporate fiction absent either “flagrant disregard of corporate barriers” or fraud
  • where the court held there was no basis to disregard the corporate fiction unless there is “flagrant disregard of corporate barriers” or fraud
  • “[T]he [above-quoted statutory language] was taken by text and periodical writers as broadly abolishing the so-called ‘common employment’ doctrine and permitting third party actions by ... an injured employee against all but his immediate insured employer.”
  • “Contemporary comment . . . shows that the statute was taken by text and periodical writers as broadly abolishing the so-called ‘common employment’ doctrine and permitting third-party actions by, or in behalf of, an injured employee against all but his immediate insured employer”

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Judges: Greaney, Cutter, Fine

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