Yeager v. Heckman

GANEY, District Judge.

Plaintiff’s petition for an order of distribution of a fund resulting from a compromise settlement poses the question whether an employer’s insurance carrier must also pay a proportionate attorney’s fee on the difference between the sum which it agreed to pay under the Pennsylvania Workmen’s Compensation Act and the amount which it actually paid.1

On November 20, 1954, William J. West, Jr., while he was in the course of his employment, was fatally injured as the result of the negligence of the defendants. The administratrix of his estate brought an action in this court…