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...Middlesex County Superior Court judge dismissed last week a former Harvard employee’s suit that faulted the University for its response to an assault the plaintiff alleges occured at the Law School Library three years...
...suit was dismissed without a hearing on Nov. 3. The plaintiff, former Law School Library employee Beth A. Isabelle of North Reading, Mass., said she has been ill and lacked a lawyer to respond to the University’s motion to dismiss...
...complaint, which Isabelle filed Sept. 17, alleged that she was seriously injured from an assault that took place at work on Sept. 18, 2001. The suit contended that the University didn’t tell Isabelle she was required to file an accident report, failed to provide ergonomic accommodations, and led her astray about her rights and responsibilities under workers’ compensation rules...
...Harvard’s motion to dismiss the suit, the University said that the Worker’s Compensation Act is the sole source of remedy for claims like those in Isabelle’s complaint, and cannot be pursued through civil suits...
...lawsuit also included a separate assault complaint against one of Isabelle’s co-workers from the Law School Library; the suit alleged that Sandra Shreve of Belmont, Mass., “committed an assault and battery” upon Isabelle resulting in injury, suffering, medical expenses and her inability to “sustain even partial employment.” Shreve denied the allegations in an Oct. 5 response to the court—which requested dismissal of the claim—and declined to comment further...