Legal Opinion
Dowling v. Slotnik
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided May 26, 1998No. SC 15711PublishedCited by 107 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
CALLAHAN, C. J.
The principal issue in this appeal is whether a claim for a work-related injury by the claimant, an illegal alien, is within the jurisdictional confines of the Workers’ Compensation Act, General Statutes § 31-275 et seq. We conclude that it is.
The following facts and procedural history are uncon-troverted. On February 14, 1994, the respondents, Sol V. Slotnik and Diane Reverand,1 who are husband and wife, hired the claimant, Victoria Dowling, as a live-in housekeeper and nanny for their two sons. At that time, the claimant informed the respondents that she was an illegal…
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