Paine v. Water Works Supply Co.

ROGOSHESKE, Justice.

This certiorari appeal by an employer-insurer from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Court of Appeals concerns again the difficult and perplexing problem of the relationship among employers, employees, and third-party tortfeasors under provisions of the Workers’ Compensation Act. Specifically, the question raised is whether, under Minn.St. 176.061, subd. 5, an employer-insurer is entitled to deduct from compensation dependency benefits payable to a widow an allocation of the amount she received in settlement of a third-party tort-feasor action against a vendor of…