K. W. Dart Truck Co. v. Noble

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the legislature could statutorily assign an injured worker’s claim to his employer’s insurer in certain circumstances
• finding that the “whole claim” is 20 assigned to the carrier and no “equitable or beneficial interest…remains in the employee” 21 when the injured party did not bring suit within the first year of injury after applying for 22 and accepting workers’ compensation benefits
• “There is no implication from the language of the statute that the whole claim is not assigned to the carrier. Nor is there an equitable or beneficial interest which remains in the employee.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).