Lee Way Motor Freight, Inc. v. Welch

OPALA, Justice.

Three questions are tendered for our review: [1] Does the out-of-state parent company’s guaranty for its local subsidiary—a device necessary to assure the latter entity’s continued status as an Oklahoma own-risk employer—make the guarantor liable for payment of benefits awarded before the effective date of the guaranty, where the employer’s default in payment occurred after the guaranty’s revocation? [2] Did the Workers’ Compensation Court err by including the guarantor—qua co-obligor with the now bankrupt own-risk subsidiary who was the employer—as an additional party codebtor…