Deanda v. AIU Insurance

KAUGER, J.,

with whom WATT, C.J., HODGES and EDMONDSON, J.J. join, dissenting:

T 1 The majority's failure to honor without overruling jurisprudence clearly signaling to the Legislature and employees that injured workers may reasonably expect fair dealing and putting workers' compensation insurers on notice that acting in bad faith may subject the insurer to tort damages is disingenuous. One can only assume that the majority's "general observation" concerning the status of this Court's jurisprudence as "obiter dictum" is itself in the category of language failing to constitute "a judicial…