an employer. The NIIA, with few exceptions, provides the exclusive remedy “for an employee on account of an injury by accident sustained arising out of and in the course of the employment.” NRS 616A.020(1) (emphasis added). The statute defines an accident as “an unexpected or unforeseen event happening suddenly and violently, with or without human fault, and producing at the time objective symptoms of an injury.” NRS 616A.030. This court has recognized, however, that an employee may avoid the workers’ compensation exclusive remedy provisions when an employer “deliberately and specifically intended to injure [the employee].” Conway v. Circus Circus Casinos, Inc., 116 Nev. 870, 875, 8 P.3d 837, 840 (2000); accord Barjesteh v. Faye’s Pub, 106 Nev. 120, 122, 787 P.2d 405, 406 (1990) (<HOLDING>). A viable intentional tort claim, which
recognizing a tort action when employee was dismissed for filing a workers compensation claim holding in an employees action to recover for injury sustained during work against the employer and other defendants did not state an intentional tort claim against contractor holding that once the workers compensation act provides a remedy it is exclusive and the employee has no right to bring an action in commonlaw negligence against his employer holding that the debtors knowing act of failing to obtain workers compensation insurance so that the employer owed an employee a debt after the employee suffered a workplace injury was not the sort of willful and malicious injury required for nondischargeability under  523a6 because it cannot not be said that the employer intended for the employee to suffer a fall or that there was an unbroken chain of events leading from the employers intentional act to the employees physical injury holding that an employer who commits an intentional tort against his employee cannot claim that the act was accidental so that workers compensation is the employees exclusive remedy