Vidrine v. Michigan Millers Mutual Insurance Co.

TATE, Justice.

The only issue before us concerns the right of an employer, who has paid workmen’s compensation benefits to an injured employee, to be indemnified for such benefits by a third person whose negligence has caused or contributed to the employee’s injuries. La.R.S. 23:1101-03. The precise issue is whether the employer, if he is negligent himself, is entitled to recover such benefits from a joint tortfeasor.'

For reasons detailed by the court' of appeal opinion, 242 So.2d 249 (La.App.3d Cir. 1970), the only claim before us is that of the intervenor, Ashy Construction Company, for…