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KING v. COMPPARTNERS, INC.

No. S232197.

5 Cal.5th 1039 (2018)

KIRK KING et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. COMPPARTNERS, INC., et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Supreme Court of California.

August 23, 2018.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Law Offices of Patricia A. Law, Patricia A. Law , Jonathan A. Falcioni ; Arias & Lockwood and Christopher D. Lockwood for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Smith & Baltaxe and Bernhard Baltaxe for California Applicants' Attorneys Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Francisco J. Silva , Long X. Do , Lisa Matsubara and Stacey B. Wittorff for California Medical Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Charles Edward Clark for California Society of Industrial Medicine and Surgery, Inc., as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Joshua S. Meltzer ; Munger, Tolles & Olson, Fred A. Rowley, Jr. , Jeffrey Y. Wu ; Murchison & Cumming, William D. Naeve , Ellen M. Tipping , Terry L. Kesinger and David A. Winkle for Defendants and Respondents.

Law Offices of Alweiss & McMurtry and Michael A. Marks for California Workers' Compensation Institute and American Insurance Association as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.

Crowell & Moring, David D. Johnson ; Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith and Raul L. Martinez for National Association of Independent Review Organizations, Coventry Health Care Workers Compensation, Inc., and ExamWorks, Inc., as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.

Mary C. Wickham , County Counsel, Ralph L. Rosato , Assistant County Counsel, Derrick M. Au , Principal Deputy County Counsel, Susan T. Collins and Emily A Grospe , Deputy County Counsel, for County of Los Angeles as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.

Finnegan, Marks, Theofel & Desmond and Randall G. Poppy for California Chamber of Commerce, the National Council of Self-Insurers, Property Casualty Insurers Association of America doing business in California as Association of California Insurance Companies (PCI) and CAJPA as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.

Fred J. Hiestand for the Civil Justice Association of California as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.

OPINION

By statute, California's workers' compensation system provides an injured employee's "exclusive" remedy against an employer for compensable work-related injuries. (Lab. Code, § 3602, subd. (a).) Here we consider the application of workers' compensation exclusivity to claims arising from the workers' compensation...

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