Collier v. City of Brundidge

PITTMAN, Judge.

This case presents a single primary issue: whether the right of an employer to reimbursement of workers’ compensation payments made to an injured employee who has recovered damages as a result of his or her injury from a third party can properly attach when the third-party recovery is paid on behalf of the third-party tortfeasor by the Alabama Insurance Guaranty Association (“AIGA”) pursuant to the Alabama Insurance Guaranty Association Act, § 27-42-1 et seq., Ala.Code 1975 (“the Guaranty Association Act”).

The underlying facts are not in dispute. On May 5, 1999, Coston Collier…