O'Hanlon Reports, Inc. v. Needles

DOERNER, Commissioner.

Plaintiffs O’Hanlon Reports, Inc. and National Inspection Bureau, the joint employers of one Lawrence E. Rosebrock, and Standard Accident Insurance Company, their workmen’s compensation insurer, seek by this action to enforce an alleged right of subrogation against the third party tort-feasor and his liability insurer. After the jury had been impaneled and plaintiffs had concluded their opening statement, defendants moved that plaintiffs’ claim be dismissed for the reason that under the facts outlined in the opening statement no cause of action existed against…