The Newport News Education Association President condemned the premise of the school division’s motion to dismiss Abigail Zwerner’s pending $40 million lawsuit.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3089104

NEWPORT NEWS — The Newport News Education Association President condemned the premise of the school division’s motion to dismiss Abigail Zwerner’s pending $40 million lawsuit.

The motion was filed last week by attorneys representing the School Board and argues that Zwerner, who was shot in her classroom at Richneck Elementary in January by a 6-year-old student, is only entitled to file a worker’s compensation claim because the injury she sustained from the shooting is a “workplace injury,” and that the shooting was a hazard of the job.

  • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.caEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    I wonder if you’re a postal worker and get shot by another postal worker if it’s a workplace injury. If that’s a workplace hazard.

    • Atomic
      1·
      1 year ago

      Isn’t any injury at a workplace by definition, a workplace-injury?

      The question is who is liable? Seems like people think the employee is liable by default if it’s branded a workplace injury.