Holliday v. State ex rel. Office of Financial Assistance

J^FOIL, J.

At issue in this case is whether an employer is entitled to invoke the immunity provision of the workers’ compensation law, where the incident giving rise to a tort suit is specifically excluded from coverage by the compensation law. We hold the trial court properly found that the employer is not immune from tort suit, and we affirm.

BACKGROUND

This tort litigation arises from a shooting incident at a workplace. Andrea Wright, an employee of the State of Louisiana, Office of Financial Assistance (state), was working at her office in the Wooddale State Office Building in Baton Rouge…