Schecter v. Auto-Owners Insurance Company

Dillard, Judge.

Micah Schecter appeals the trial court’s denial of his motion for summary judgment in Auto-Owners Insurance Company’s (“Auto-Owners”) suit to recover workers’ compensation benefits that it paid to injured worker David Larios. On appeal, as he argued below, Schecter contends that (1) Auto-Owners’s failure to intervene in Larios’s action against Schecter forfeited the company’s right to enforce a subrogation lien and (2) the terms of Schecter’s settlement agreement with Larios bar Auto-Owners’s suit. Because we agree that Auto-Owners’s failure to intervene in Larios’s action bars…