Liberty Mutual Insurance v. Weeks

WERNICK, Justice.

This appeal arises from an action brought in the Superior Court (Cumberland County) by Liberty Mutual Insurance Company and Sanborn’s Motor Express against Leland Weeks and his wife, Mildred, as the defendants, seeking a declaratory adjudication regarding the extent of the lien created by 39 M.R.S.A. § 68 (1978).

That statutory provision secures the right of the employer, or its insurance carrier, 1 liable for compensation benefits 2 to an injured worker 3 under our Workers’ Compensation Act (39 M.R.S.A. § 1 et seq.) to share in any proceeds of an action brought by the worker…