Spencer v. City of Seattle

How courts have described this case

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• holding that 2 employees cannot sue their employers in tort for injuries occurring in the scope of their 3 employment because Washington’s workers’ compensation act provides an employee’s “exclusive 4 remedy”
• emphasizing that Washington courts have consistently recognized and reinforced the exclusive remedy provisions of the Industrial Insurance Act
• emphasizing that Washington courts have consistently recognized and reinforced the exclusive remedy provisions of the Industrial Insurance Act
• the city's assistant civil engineer was struck by a city truck while stepping into a crosswalk in the course of employment
• the city’s assistant civil engineer wás struck by a city truck while stepping into a crosswalk in the course of employment
• expressly rejecting dual capacity and holding that the City, in its capacity as employer, was immune from suit, regardless of separate duties it owed to its employee in the capacity of a municipality

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