Curtiss v. GSX Corp. of Colorado

QUINN, Chief Justice.

The question in this case is whether the statutory employer provisions of the Colorado Workers’ Compensation Act, which immunize a company that contracts out any part of the work to a contractor from a common law action in tort for work-related injuries sustained by a worker-employee of the contractor, are violative of the state constitutional guarantee of equal protection of the laws, Colo. Const, art. II, § 25, the constitutional right of access to the courts, Colo. Const, art. II, § 6, and the constitutional prohibition against special legislation, Colo. Const, art. V,…