Bouley v. City of Norwich

I agree with the Appellate Court that the exclusivity provision of the Workers’ Compensation Act; General Statutes (Rev. to 1985) § 31-284;1 does not bar an employee injured in an automobile accident while in the course of his employment from receiving uninsured motorist benefits2 from his self-insured employer. Any other result would simply confuse tort law with contract law—both of which, of course, are birds of a different feather.

The majority claims that the Appellate Court’s decision was predicated, in part, on a misreading of Wilson v. Security Ins. Co., 213 Conn. 532, 569 A.2d 40,…