Nelsen v. Workmen's Compesation Appeals Board

Opinion

JANES, J.

Each of these four workmen’s compensation cases involves facts of which the following pattern is typical: The employee had been furnished benefits by his employer’s workmen’s compensation carrier. The carrier later intervened or filed a lien claim in the employee’s civil action against an alleged third party tortfeasor for the same injuries. In that action, the court or jury found that the employer’s concurrent negligence was a proximate cause of the injuries. The employee recovered from the third party by judgment or by settlement made at or after trial. Then the employee…