Legal Opinion
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority v. Reid
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided October 2, 1995No. 93-CV-1695PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STEADMAN, Associate Judge:
Appellee Ronald Williams, a bus driver for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (“WMATA”), was injured when his bus was hit by a car driven by appellee Wendell Reid. WMATA voluntarily paid Williams workers’ compensation act benefits. On the last day before the statute of limitations would run, Williams filed suit against Reid, seeking damages for negligence, WMATA intervened in the action for the express purpose of protecting its workers’ compensation lien.
In this appeal, WMATA asserts that the trial court abused its discretion in granting Williams’s…
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