Court Rejects Carrier's Objection to Apportionment of Worker's 3rd-Party Settlement

The Pennsylvania Superior Court rejected an insurance carrier’s objection to a third-party settlement that apportioned more than half of the payment to a gravely injured worker's wife on a loss of consortium claim. Case: Gleason v. Alfred I. Dupont Hospital for Children, Nos. 1757 EDA 2021 and 1758 EDA 2021, 08/29/2022, unpublished. Facts and procedural history: John Gleason worked for the Medical Imaging Group as a magnetic resonance imaging field service technician. On May 29, 2015, while Gleason was performing maintenance on an MRI machine at Dupont Hospital, a fire a...