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In New York, absent an express agreement to the contrary, a defendant sued in tort by an injured employee may seek contribution or indemnification from the employer only if the employee suffered a "grave injury, as that term is defined in N.Y. Workers’ Comp. Law § 11. A New York appellate court held that where an employer/third-party defendant established a prima facie case that the plaintiff/employee had not sustained such a grave injury, and where the defendant/third-party plaintiff failed to offer evidence raising a triable issue of fact, the trial court appropriately granted summary judgment in favor of the employer on the contribution claim. While the employee had sustained a brain injury, there was no evidence that the employee had sustained permanent total disability.
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See Grech v HRC Corp., 2017 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 3660 (May 10, 2017)
See generally Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law, § 121.03.
Source: Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law, the nation’s leading authority on workers’ compensation law