Perez v. Pennsuco Cement & Aggregates

The order under review, which discharges and dismisses the petition for rule nisi filed by the appellant, a workers’ compensation beneficiary, is reversed and the cause is remanded for further proceedings upon a holding that the third-party liability tort action workers’ compensation lien settlement involved herein — interpreted liberally in favor of the beneficiary1 and in accord with the Workers’ Compensation Act third-party liability compensation lien statutory provisions and decisional law thereunder in effect on April 4, 1972, the date of the appellant’s compensable accident 2 — does not…