Kirk v. Walter E. Deuchler Associates, Inc.

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE SEIDENFELD

delivered the opinion of the court:

Whether a recipient of workers’ compensation benefits, who subsequently recovers a judgment from a third party, must account for accrued interest on the portion of the judgment recovered representing workers’ compensation benefits from the date of the judgment to the employer or his workers’ compensation insurance carrier is the question before us. The trial court ruled that the employee must pay back only the amount of the workers’ compensation payment made to him without interest, and the employer and his carrier (the…