Brown v. Superior Court

OPINION

BURKE, J.

Petitioner in this mandamus proceeding seeks to compel respondent superior court to approve a settlement agreement reached between petitioner as plaintiff and real parties in interest Sullivan et al. as defendants in a third-party tortfeasor action, but which settlement lacked the consent of the workmen’s compensation insurance carrier (carrier) of petitioner’s employer. As will appear, we have concluded that the trial court ruled correctly that the proposed settlement improperly undertook to exclude the carrier’s claimed reimbursement lien, and that the writ sought should be…