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The plaintiff won and was awarded a commission of $500.
The plaintiff appealed to this court from the judgments of the trial court dismissing the substitute complaints in three cases she had filed against her former employer, the defendant hospital, as barred by the exclusivity provision (§ 31-284 (a)) of the Workers' Compensation Act (§ 31-275 et seq.). The plaintiff had been employed by the defendant when she suf- fered an injury for which she sought workers' compensation benefits, and the defendant accepted the claim. The plaintiff filed functionally identical substitute complaints in each of the three actions, alleging, inter alia, that the defendant had engaged in retaliatory and discriminatory conduct against her in violation of statute (§ 31-290a) as a result of her having sought workers' compensation benefits. The trial court granted the defendant's motions to strike all three complaints, determining that they did not allege employment discrimination claims pursuant to § 31- 290a but, rather, bad faith processing of a workers' compensation claim, which was barred by § 31-284 (a). Held that the trial court properly struck the complaints as being barred by § 31-284 (a), as the plaintiff failed to allege any adverse employment action by the defendant, none of its alleged behavior related to or had any effect on her employment status, she admitted in her complaints that the defendant's behavior did not arise out of or in the course of her employment, and, despite her attempt to recast her claims as alleging employment discrimination, she alleged nothing more than bad faith processing of her workers' compensation claim. Argued January 20—officially released May 3, 2022
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