Claim of Petterson v. Daystrom Corp.

The sole issue to be determined is whether the carrier is entitled to a credit against the proceeds of the settlement of a wrongful death action instituted in the State of Connecticut.

A resident of this State and an employee of Daystrom Corporation, decedent, a passenger, sustained injuries in the course of his employment on March 15, 1958 when an automobile owned by Triboro-Drive-It-Yourself, Inc., a New York corporation, and operated by a fellow employee, one Verven, veered from the public highway in Sharon, Connecticut, and struck an adjacent tree. As a result thereof he died on May 14,…