Cross v. Pan Am World Services, Inc.

OPINION

per CURT AM.

The issues in this case involve the alleged liability of an employer for payment of costs, including attorney’s fees, incurred by a workman in securing a judgment against a third-party tortfeasor, where the judgment has the effect of relieving the employer from liability for payment of worker’s compensation benefits.

Luther B. Cross was employed by Pan Am World Services, Inc., as a security guard and was assigned to work at the Arnold Engineering Development Center in Tullahoma, Tennessee. On November 27, 1982, Mr. Cross was at his assigned work station when there was an…