Kaiser v. Strall

Appellants herein ask us to determine whether a party who has been injured as a result of a fellow employee’s misfeasance and whose injury has been ruled to be compensable under the workers’ compensation statutes may thereafter attempt to enforce a common-law remedy against the co-employee. Though the instant action presents what is, for this court, a novel question, the answer to this query may be readily gleaned from even the most perfunctory review of the applicable statute. Notwithstanding the fact that appellant has yet to cash the benefit checks the commission awarded her, the mere…