Legal Opinion
Kuykendall v. Gulfstream Aerospace Technologies
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Decided December 17, 2002No. 97,036PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWinchester, J.
11 The issue before us is whether Oklahoma will recognize a tort for bad faith against a self-insured employer who failed to pay for medicine prescribed for its employee as ordered by a Workers' Compensation Court. We decline to create a common law remedy when the legislature has provided a statutory remedy in the Workers' Compensation Act.
2 On August 14, 2001, the appellant, C.C. Kuykendall, filed a petition in district court naming Gulfstream Aerospace Technologies, the appellee, as defendant. The petition alleged that Kuykendall filed pleadings in Workers' Compensation Court to reopen a…
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