Court Opinion

ID: 9570698
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 20:25:23.648056+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:14:01.800855
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*624Marshall, Presiding Justice,
dissenting.
For reasons unnecessary to go into at length, the logic employed in the majority opinion is fundamentally inconsistent with the logic which serves as the basis for the decision in Wright Assoc. v. Rieder, 247 Ga. 496 (277 SE2d 41) (1981).
It can be said that Rieder creates an “expansion” of statutory workers’ compensation tort immunity, in that it holds that there is immunity in a situation in which the Workers’ Compensation Act does not expressly say that there shall be immunity. If there is immunity on the part of the principal contractor in Rieder, in my opinion there is no logical basis on which to say there is no immunity on the part of the employee of the principal contractor here. For this reason, I respectfully dissent.
I am authorized to state that Justice Bell joins in this dissent.