Swanson v. Champion International Corp.

This case comes to us on appeal from the Workers’ Compensation Court, which entered an order affirming a determination by the Workers’ Compensation Division that Liberty Mutual Insurance Company was entitled to $24,000 out of a settlement of $56,250 that Earn Swanson had received for claims arising out of the death of her husband Gary P. Swanson.

Gary P. Swanson, an employee of Champion International Corporation, died in an airplane crash on July 14, 1976 in the course of performing an aerial timber cruise for his employer. At the time of the accident, Champion was insured for its Workers’…