Costa v. Liberty Mutual Insurance

Upon a motion for summary judgment by Liberty Mutual Insurance Company (Liberty), a Superior Court judge decided that Liberty, in its position as a workers’ compensation insurer, owed no duty to the plaintiff Michael Costa, an injured employee, to advise him that he had a potential action against the manufacturer of the machine involved in his industrial accident. Judgment was entered for the defendant and the plaintiff has appealed. We affirm.

The dispositive facts, as must be the case when summary judgment is granted, are undisputed. Costa was hurt while *177working on a “mangle” machine.1…