Travelers Property Casualty Corp. v. Jim Walter Homes, Inc.

REIF, Judge.

¶ 1 This appeal arises from a subrogation proceeding filed March 20, 1997, by Travelers Property Casualty Corporation against *1191Jim Walter Homes, Inc. Travelers sought to recover the workers’ compensation benefits it had paid to an injured employee of its insured. The employee was injured on March 23, 1995, by an alleged construction defect in the Jim Walter’s house where he was delivering sheet rock. Even though Travelers filed this ease within two years of the actual date of the injury, Jim Walter argued that collateral estoppel binds Travelers to the workers’ compensation court’s…