Erie Insurance Co. v. Curtis

KARWACKI, Judge.

We issued a writ of certiorari in this case to determine whether a workers’ compensation insurer may assert its statutory lien for compensation paid to an injured worker against a recovery made by that worker under the unin sured motorist coverage of his employer’s automobile liability insurance policy.

I

Appellee, Zesco F. Curtis, was injured in an automobile accident while in the course of his employment with Entec Technicom, Inc. (“Entec”) on October 30, 1987. The accident occurred when a motorist who was operating a stolen vehicle collided head-on with Curtis’s vehicle. The…