American Home Assurance Co. v. Eighth Judicial District Court of the State of Nevada ex rel. County of Clark

OPINION

By the Court,

Hardesty, J.:

In Nevada, when a third party is at fault for an industrial accident, the workers’ compensation insurer that paid benefits to the injured worker has a lien upon any proceeds that the worker recovers from the tortfeasor, so that the insurer’s payments are reimbursed, ultimately, by the tortfeasor. During the proceedings underlying this writ petition, to protect its lien on any proceeds recovered by the injured worker to whom it provided benefits, a workers’ compensation insurer asked the district court to allow it to intervene in the injured worker’s tort…