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Tim's Golden Nuggets OnTimeTraining.com
January 1, 2001

Employee Sexually Assaulted at Work
May Seek Damages From Employer!

A Pennsylvania Superior Court panel found that an employee sexually assaulted at her workplace does not have to show that a history of animosity existed between her and her attacker to recover damages against her employer under an exception to the Workers' Compensation Act. The court said the key to the exception is the determination that an attack came because of "purely personal reasons."


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