Crawford v. Connors

The legal effect of the majority’s affir-mance is to hold the servicing agent (third party administrator) jointly and severally liable along with the self-insured employer for payment of compensation benefits. The majority cites no precedent for this result. In fact, there is no precedent for converting a servicing agent into an insurer. Although entitlement to compensation benefits is based on statute, the majority also cites no section of the statute which supports this result. The only possible justification ior this decision is to find a deep pocket for an employee who cannot collect…