Bart v. Union Oil Co.

The plaintiff-appellant, Gertrude M. Bart, appeals from a judgment in favor of the intervenor-appellee, the Occidental Fire & Casualty Company of North Carolina. The trial court held that Occidental’s workers’ compensation lien attached to the entire amount of a settlement obtained by Gertrude.

In 1984, Gertrude’s husband, Alex Bart, was killed in an explosion at a Lemont, Illinois, refinery operated by the defendant, the Union Oil Company of California. Bart was employed by Industrial Patrol Service Corporation as a security guard at the refinery. Occidental was Industrial Patrol Service’s…