Lone v. Esco Elevators, Inc.

This appeal* 1 presents two difficult questions of first impression of worker’s compensation law.(1) When an employer or its insurer pays worker’s compensation benefits to an injured employee and the employee and his wife obtain a tort judgment from a third-party tortfeasor, does MCLA 418.827; MSA 17.237(827) authorize the employer to claim reimbursement or an advance payment credit from that portion of the judgment which compensates the injured employee’s wife for loss of consortium?(2) When an injured employee successfully pursues a tort action against the third-party tortfeasor, and a…