Lance Camper Manufacturing Corp. v. Republic Indemnity Co. of America

Opinion

BOREN, P. J.

In this appeal, we revisit two decisions in which we addressed an employer’s right to sue its workers’ compensation insurer. In the first decision, Security Officers Service, Inc. v. State Compensation Ins. Fund (1993) 17 Cal.App.4th 887 [21 Cal.Rptr.2d 653], we upheld an employer’s right to sue its workers’ compensation insurer for breach of contract and bad faith. This decision has been followed and cited with approval by other courts. In the second decision, P.W. Stephens, Inc. v. State Compensation Ins. Fund (1994) 21 Cal.App.4th 1833 [27 Cal.Rptr.2d 107], we concluded…