Opinion

Ponca City Welfare Ass'n v. Ludwigsen

  • 65 O.B.A.J. 3338
  • 882 P.2d 1062
  • 1994 OK 110
  • 1994 Okla. LEXIS 129
  • 1994 WL 557042
Court
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Filed
Oct 11, 1994
Status
Published
Author
Opala
On the bench
Summers, Lavender, Simms, Hargrave, Wilson, Kauger, Hodges, Opala, Watt
Cited by
1 cases

The opinion

OPALA, Justice,

dissenting.

Because the claimant, when injured, was engaged in an activity that was furthering the employer’s efforts of charitable fundrais-ing, and was hence engaged in contributing to the employer’s “pecuniary gain”, I would deny certiorari and let the opinion by the Court of Appeals, Division I, stand as this court’s precedential pronouncement. The charitable immunity from liability under the Workers’ Compensation Act, 85 O.S.1991 §§ 1 et seq., crafted by today’s opinion to exclude from coverage an entire class of eleemosynary corporations, has no warrant in the statutory text — it is laid down by judicial fiat.

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