Boyle v. Breme

By affirming the judgment in this case on the reasoning of the opinion below, this Court endorses a very literal and strict interpretation of the coemployee immunity provision of the workers’ compensation statute, N.J.S.A. 34:15-8,1 and thereby denies an employee the right to maintain a cause of action for *571medical malpractice against a physician who happens to be employed by the same employer and whose professional activities and responsibilities are wholly unrelated to those of the injured employee. Because I do not believe that the coemployee immunity statute should be understood to bar…