Childs v. State Ex Rel. Oklahoma State University

OPALA, Justice.

The dispositive issue for review is whether the amended provisions of 51 O.S.Supp. 1988 § 155(14) of the Governmental Tort Claims Act [Tort Claims Act] 1 extended the State’s immunity to include its liability to persons, not then in the employ of the State of Oklahoma, who were covered for the injurious event in suit by the workers’ compensation regime of any state. We answer in the affirmative.

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THE ANATOMY OF LITIGATION

In 1989 John Childs and Randy Hood [Childs and Hood], both Texas residents, were in Oklahoma while in the course of their employment with the same private…