Place v. Ryder

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed September 30, 2002, which ruled, inter alia, that *962the self-insured employer had reserved its offset rights against the net recovery of claimant’s third-party action.

Claimant received workers’ compensation benefits from his self-insured employer after falling on premises owned by a third party. Thereafter, claimant settled his third-party action arising out of the accident. It is undisputed that the self-insured employer was not represented in court when the stipulation of settlement was placed on the record, there is nothing in…