Carlson v. Smogard

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• concluding that certain provisions of Workers Compensation Act impermissibly abrogated common-law rights of indemnification
• concluding that a worker’s compensation law was unconstitutional in part because it abrogated a third-party tortfeasor’s common law right to indemnity without providing a “reasonable substitute” or pursuing a “legitimate legislative objective”
• abrogation of third-party tortfeasor’s common law right to indemnification from a negligent employer without a legitimate objective and without providing a reasonable substitute is unconstitutional

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