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WILLIAMS v. INTERNATIONAL PAPER CO.

Docket No. 20239.

129 Cal.App.3d 810 (1982)

181 Cal. Rptr. 342

WINSTON S. WILLIAMS, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. INTERNATIONAL PAPER COMPANY, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Third District.

March 17, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Tocher, Gazzigli & Fuller, Hanna, Brophy, Maclean, McAleer & Jensen and Michael G. Lowe for Defendant and Appellant.

Chickering & Gregory, John P. Macmeeken and D. Wayne Jeffries as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

Ericksen, Arbuthnot, McCarthy & Kearney, Robert N. Arbuthnot and Bryce C. Anderson for Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

SPARKS, J.

The principal question presented by this appeal is whether an employee may bring a civil action against his employer for injuries caused by the employer's intentional failure to correct hazardous working conditions when it knew that an injurious explosion was substantially certain to occur. We hold that such an action is barred by the "exclusive remedy" limitation of the workers' compensation act (Lab. Code, §...

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