Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Co. v. McDonough

OPINION

OSBORN, Chief Justice.

This appeal is from a judgment awarding damages against a workers’ compensation carrier for failure to authorize and pay medical expenses in accordance with a compromise settlement agreement within a reasonable time. The judgment is reformed, and as reformed is affirmed.

In March, 1983, these parties entered into a compromise settlement agreement and thereby settled a workers’ compensation claim resulting from an accident a year earlier. Although the compromise settlement agreement 1 does not specifically so provide and was not artfully completed, the parties agree…