Barker v. Palmarin

LOWENSTEIN, Presiding Judge.

This case is between two insurance companies. The issue is whether the workers’ compensation statutes allow the employer’s compensation carrier, which has paid benefits to an employee, to subrogate its claim against an automobile liability carrier, which is obligated to pay under its uninsured motorist clause.

The employee Barker was driving a truck owned by a Shandy Stewart and leased to his employer-appellant H & J Transporters, Inc. H & J had compensation insurance with intervenor-appellant American States Insurance Company (American). North-land Insurance…