Cooper v. Younkin

COYNE, Justice.

By writ of certiorari employee-relator Lawrence F. Cooper seeks review of a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Court of Appeals remanding the matter for redeter-mination of a subrogation credit to the employer. We reverse.

On October 22, 1977, the employee sustained a compensable injury in a collision between his employer’s truck, which the employee was driving, and an uninsured motor vehicle. The employer, Allied Disposal, by its insurer, Western National Mutual Insurance Co. (Western National), paid workers’ compensation benefits — which aggregated more than $60,000 by…