Department of Administrative Services v. Brown

Andrews, Judge.

In this interlocutory appeal, the Department of Administrative Services (“DAS”) challenges the trial court’s denial of its motion to intervene in a personal injury case asserted by DAS’s insured, Luneda Brown.

The underlying negligence action involves an automobile collision in December 1993. A tractor-trailer driven by an employee of Leon Jones Feed & Grain, Inc. (“Jones”) allegedly injured Brown, a Sumter County Health Department employee acting within the scope of her employment. As a result, DAS, the State’s workers’ compensation self-insurer, paid Brown over $100,000 in…