Liberty Mutual Insurance v. Westerlind

How courts have described this case

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• barring contribution under the Workmen’s Compensation Act on the rationale that the language of the UCATA “requires that the potential contributor be directly liable to the plaintiff.”
• denying joint tortfeasor right of contribution or indemnity from negligent employer who paid workers’ compensation benefits, based on statutory scheme
• a third-party tortfeasor has no right to contribution from an employer whose negligence contributed to employee’s injuries, where employee is receiving worker’s compensation benefits
• allowance of motion to implead third party under rule 14 [a] “turns on whether [the third party] is or may be liable to [the defendant] for all or part of [the plaintiff’s] claim against [the defendant]”
• employer who pays workers’ compensation benefits that are collected by employee injured during the course of his employment is released under G. L. c. 152, § 23, from all possible resulting tort claims
• allowance of motion to implead third party under rule 14[a] “turns on whether [the third party] is or may be liable to [the defendant] for all or part of [the plaintiffs] claim against [the defendant]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).