Travelers Insurance Company v. Leedy

McINERNEY, Justice.

The question presented in this appeal is whether the insurance carrier, having made compensation payments to an injured employee, may intervene after the expiration of two years to recover its payments in the employee’s action for personal injuries against a negligent third party, where the employee filed the action in his name alone within less than two years following the date of his injury.

A motion to dismiss the petition of the insurance carrier as intervening plaintiff was filed by the injured employee, joined in orally by the defendant, and sustained by the trial…