March v. Pekin Insurance Co.

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• employee may maintain action against third party who has legal liability to pay damages and employer or employer’s insurer is indemnified out of recovery of damages
• “Although Pekin’s obligation to March is measured by the damages wrought by the tortfeasor, Pekin’s payment to March is not thereby transformed from a contractual payment to one for damages.”
• employee may maintain action against third party who has legal liability to pay damages and employer or employer's insurer is indemnified out of recovery of damages
• validity of workers’ compensation carrier’s lien raised by motion in third-party action

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).