West v. Wyoming State Treasurer

CARDINE, Justice.

Appellant sought a declaratory judgment that she was not required to reimburse, out of a third party $399,000 wrongful death recovery, two-thirds of the $72,316.51 worker’s compensation benefits paid to decedent’s survivor beneficiaries. The trial court held that the third party wrongful death recovery was subject to a statutory lien requiring reimbursement of worker’s compensation benefits and further that the State was not obligated to file a creditor’s claim in the decedent worker’s estate.

We affirm.

Appellant states the issues as follows:

“1. The lien provisions of…