PRICE v. HOWARD

No. 105,943.

236 P.3d 82 (2010)

2010 OK 26

Darla K. PRICE, Individually, and as the Surviving Spouse of Perry Keith Price, Deceased, Plaintiff/Appellant, v. Cathryn L. HOWARD, Cynthia Lynn Henning and Charles J. Howard, Jr., Independent Co-Executors of the Estate of Charles James Howard, M.D., Deceased; The Estate of Charles James Howard, M.D., Deceased; Cathy Ann Olsen, Independent Administratrix of the Estate of Jon Peter Olsen, Deceased; The Estate of Jon Peter Olsen, Deceased; David Hobza, and ServiCenter, Inc., Defendants/Appellees.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

As Corrected April 1 and June 14, 2010.

Rehearing Denied June 14, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Derek K. Burch, James A. Scimeca, Burch & George, P.C., Oklahoma City, OK, for Plaintiff/Appellant, Darla K. Price.

A. Thomas Elder, Jr., David C. Johnston, Smith Rhodes Stewart & Elder, P.L.L.C., Oklahoma City, OK, for Defendants/Appellees, Cathryn L. Howard, Cynthia Lynn Henning, and Charles J. Howard, Jr., The Estate of Charles James Howard, Cathy Ann Olsen, The Estate of Jon Peter Olsen.

Mark R. McPhail, Spradling, Kennedy & McPhail, L.L.P., Oklahoma City, OK, Galen Lee Brittingham, Andrew G. Wakeman, Atkinson, Haskins, Nellis, Brittingham, Gladd and Carwile, Tulsa, OK, for Defendants/Appellees, Cathryn L. Howard, Cynthia Lynn Henning and Charles J. Howard, Jr., The Estate of Charles James Howard.

Anton Rupert, Crowe & Dunlevy, Oklahoma City, OK, Katherine A. Staton, Jackson Walker, L.L.P., Dallas, TX, for Defendant/Appellee, David Hobza.

Bradley K. Donnell, Rodney K. Hunsinger, McAfee & Taft, Oklahoma City, OK, for Defendant/Appellee, ServiCenter, Inc.


WATT, J.:

¶ 1 We retained this cause to answer two questions: 1) whether the various defendants/appellees are entitled to the protection of the exclusive remedy provision1 of the Oklahoma Workers' Compensation Act; and 2) if so, whether the actions of the respective parties were sufficient to take them outside that protection under this Court's opinion in Parret v. UNICCO Service Co., 2005 OK 54, 127 P.3d 572...

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