Silvera v. Employers Insurance

OPINION

By the Court,

Agosti, J.:

Employers Insurance Company of Nevada (“EICON”) is the primary provider of workers’ compensation insurance to Nevada employers. Under NRS 616C.215(5), when an employee is injured on the job, EICON is subrogated to the employee’s right to recover damages in certain circumstances and may place a lien “upon the total proceeds of any recovery.”

In this appeal, we are asked to decide if EICON may assert a lien against an injured employee’s recovery from an uninsured or underinsured motorist (“UM”) insurance policy maintained by a party other than the employer or…