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How courts have described this case

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• holding that “settlement of the worker’s claim necessarily settled the employer’s subrogation claim and entitled the employer to reimbursement to the extent of the funds that the third party has agreed to pay in settlement”
• “If a formal compensation award is not entered, the assignment provision of the [LHWCA] does not apply, even if the employer has voluntarily made compensation payments, and the right to assert the worker’s third-party cause of action remains with the worker.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).