0142 Although characterized as "constructive wrongful termination" committed by maintaining working conditions that led to intolerable physical and emotional suffering by employee, such a claim is for job-related physical and mental suffering, for which workers' compensation is the exclusive remedy; employer's liability carrier had obligation to defend and raise exclusivity of workers' compensation as a defense.CitationWONG v SCIF (Wrongful Termination Exclusion) 12 CA4 686 [See: Gray v Zurich 65 C2 263; Panopulos v Westinghouse 216 CA3 660]
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