Travelers Cas. Insurance v. Karns - (

Atcheson, J.:

*303 *389 Regular participants in government bureaucracies sometimes adopt informalities that commonly reduce the friction those processes would generate if they functioned strictly as designed. The expedients mostly work unless they run up against an eccentric situation or until someone calls attention to the actual design. We appear to face some combination of those circumstances in assessing how the Kansas Workers Compensation Act realigns financial responsibility among insurance companies when one insurer has paid benefits to an injured worker that should have been paid by another…