Hormann v. New Hampshire Insurance

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Lockett, J.:

The plaintiffs in two Sedgwick County cases, consolidated for appeal, attempted to sue their employers’ workers’ compensation insurers for tortious behavior in termi nating the injured workers’ benefits without just cause. Hormann is here on interlocutory appeal following the district court judge’s denial of insurers’ motion to dismiss for the worker’s failure to state a cause of action. Snyder is here following summary judgment for the insurer in which a different district judge found that the worker’s compensation remedies were exclusive.

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