Rubenstein Lumber Co. v. Aetna Life & Casualty Co.

PRESIDING JUSTICE RIZZI

delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiff, Rubenstein Lumber Company, sought a declaratory judgment that defendant, Aetna Life and Casualty Company, must defend and indemnify plaintiff in an action for retaliatory discharge brought against plaintiff by a former employee who had filed a claim under the Workers’ Compensation Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1983, ch. 48, par. 138.1 et seq.). The court entered summary judgment in favor of defendant, and plaintiff appeals. We affirm.

The facts of this case are undisputed. On March 23, 1979, one of plaintiff’s employees, who sustained…