Actor's Negligence Claim over Film Set Injury Preempted by California's Workers' Compensation Act
The U.S District Court for the Central District of California decided a background actor was a “special employee” whose negligence claim alleging hearing injury against a film production company thus was preempted by the remedy provided by the California Workers' Compensation Act (WCA).
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