In Naso v. Lafata (4 N.Y.2d 585, 589, 152 N.E.2d 59, 176 N.Y.S.2d 622 [1958]), the Court explained that a worker injured in a car driven negligently by a coemployee (and in the course of their employment) may not resort to the Vehicle and Traffic Law for a cause of action against the car's owner. The Workers' Compensation Law, we held, offers the only remedy for injuries caused by the coemployee's negligence. This conclusion flowed directly from the statutory language in what was then Workmen's Compensation Law 29 (6), which stated that "the right to compensation or benefits under this chapter, shall be the exclusive remedy to an employee . . . when such employee is injured or killed by the negligence or wrong of another in the same employ" (quoted in Naso, 4 N.Y.2d at 589).