Ore-Ida Foods, Inc. v. Indian Head Cattle Co.

*911PETERSON, J.

In this case an employer (Ore-Ida) of a deceased employee (Gonzalez) paid workers’ compensation survivors benefits to Donna Burzota, an unmarried cohabitant of the decedent. Gonzalez was killed on the employer’s premises when struck by a truck operated by the defendant, with whom the employer had a contract to remove waste products from the employer’s premises. The employer sued the defendant, asserting that the sole cause of the death, and the sole reason why the employer was required to pay the death benefits, was the fault of the defendant. The defendant defended along these…