Legal Opinion
Messick v. Star Enterprise
Supreme Court of Delaware
Decided March 22, 1995No. 183, 1994PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
VEASEY, Chief Justice.
In this appeal, we consider whether the application of collateral estoppel to decisions of the Industrial Accident Board (“IAB”) forces an election of remedies prohibited under Delaware Workers’ Compensation law. The Superior Court found that collateral es-toppel applies to IAB decisions, thus barring plaintiff below-appellant Donald W. Messick (“Messick”) from rearguing in a third-party civil suit a factual contention rejected by the IAB — namely, that his heart attack was caused by gas exposure. Therefore, it granted summary judgment for defendant below-appellee Star…
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