Knight-Ridder Newspapers, Inc. v. Sosa

I respectfully dissent.

At trial, the question of workmen’s compensation benefits arose with the defendant newspaper arguing that because it had paid out workmen’s compensation benefits to the plaintiff a wrongful death action was thereby improper and could not be instituted. Pursuant to special interrogatory verdict forms, the jury found that the deceased “. . . was an employee of Knight-Ridder Newspapers, Inc.” The jury also found that the deceased “. . . at the time of his death was engaged in activities within the course and scope of his employment with. . .” the defendant newspaper. The'…