Minnesota Brewing Co. v. Egan & Sons Co.

OPINION

BLATZ, Justice.

This case raises the question of whether an employer asserting its subrogation right under Minnesota’s Workers’ Compensation Act (“Act”) can collect workers’ compensation benefits paid and payable to its injured employee from a third party engaged in a common enterprise with the employer without proving negligence. Alfred Berget was injured in a work-related accident and subsequently elected to collect workers’ compensation benefits from his employer, Minnesota Brewing Company (“MBC”). Berget was thus precluded from bringing a negligence action against third-party Egan &…