Baiguen v. Harrah's Las Vegas, LLC

By the Court, PICKERING, J.:

The Nevada workers' compensation system provides the exclusive remedy an employee has against his or her employer for a work-related injury. This case requires us to decide whether an injury arising from an employer's failure to provide medical assistance to an employee suffering a stroke arose out of and in the course of the employment. We hold that it did. Because an employee's sole remedy for such an injury is workers' compensation, we affirm summary judgment for the employer.

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Israel Baiguen was suffering a stroke when he arrived for work as a Harrah's…