Hudson v. Townsend Saw Chain Co.

Goolsby, Judge:

The basic issue on appeal in this workers’ compensation case is whether the respondent Lelia P. Hudson’s prosecution of a third-party action to a final, but adverse, determination without giving notice to the Workers’ Compensation Commission, her employer, and her employer’s workers’ compensation carrier of the commencement of the action within 30 days after bringing the third-party action constituted an election of remedies, thus barring her from proceeding under the Workers’ Compensation Act against the appellants Townsend Saw Chain Company and its carrier, Aetna Casualty and…