Lee v. International Data Group

In December, 1994, Sylvia Liotta (the plaintiff), who had suffered serious and permanently debilitating injuries when she fell down a flight of stairs in December, 1991, while at work, commenced a negligence action against the appellant, International Data Group (IDG). Her complaint alleged that *111IDG (whom she subsequently contended had been her employer) had a responsibility to maintain workers’ compensation insurance covering her, which it had failed to do. As a result, the plaintiff asserted, she was unable to secure workers’ compensation benefits and was, therefore, entitled to damages at…