Legal Opinion
Hubbard v. Livingston Fire Protection, Inc.
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided March 3, 1981No. [No. 51, September Term, 1980.]PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, J.
We shall here hold that under the Workmen’s Compensation Act (the Act) an employer and its insurance company are not obligated to reimburse an employee for attorney’s fees paid on that portion of an award under the Act which they were relieved from paying the employee by virtue of his recovery from a third party of a sum in excess of the award. Accordingly, we shall affirm the decision of the Court of Special Appeals in Livingston Fire Pro. v. Hubbard, 45 Md. App. 504, 414 A.2d 5 (1980).
The facts are not in dispute and may be briefly recounted. Harold R. Hubbard was injured in 1969 while in…
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