Carrier Can Challenge Allocation of Settlement Between Worker, Spouse

The Pennsylvania Superior Court ruled that an insurance carrier should have been allowed to intervene in a lawsuit to contest the apportionment of the settlement proceeds between an injured worker and his spouse on their claims for negligence and loss of consortium. Case: Gleason v. Alfred I. Dupont Hospital for Children, No. 1872 EDA 2020, 08/05/2021, published. Facts and procedural history: John Gleason worked for the Medical Imaging Group as a field service technician. Hartford Insurance Group provided workers’ compensation insurance coverage to MIG. In May 2015, MIG sent Gleason t...