Employers Mutual Liability Insurance v. Icke

The determination of the questions raised upon this appeal depends upon the interpretation to be placed upon sec. 102.29, Stats., which is set out in the margin.1

*307A history of this section is helpful in determining what the legislature intended to do by its enactment. In the original act the provisions relating to third-party claims were embodied in sec. 2394 — 25. This section merely provided that the making of a claim by an employee for compensation should operate as an assignment of any cause of action which the employee might have had against a third party.

It was amended by ch. 599, Laws…