A company that indemnified an employer for the costs of a worker’s claim could assert the employer’s subrogation right against a recovery the worker later obtained from a third-party tortfeasor, the Maryland Court of Special Appeals ruled.
Case: Shaw v. SMS Assist, No. 2223, 01/03/2018, unpublished.
Facts and procedural history: Rachel Shaw worked at the Family Dollar store in Temple Hills. She slipped and fell on a wet floor while at work in January 2012.
She filed a workers’ compensation claim, which she eventually settled in exchange for a payment of $45,596.20.
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