Multiple employers can be immunized against a tort claim filed by an employee who has already recovered workers’ compensation benefits from one of the employers, the Commonwealth Court has ruled.
A unanimous three-judge panel ruled Oct. 24 in Nagle v. TrueBlue that the estate of a man who died while working for both an employment agency and the township for which it provided employees could not pursue negligence, wrongful-death and survival claims against either the agency or the township. Doing so would frustrate the purposes of the Workers’ Compensation Act, the court said.
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