What is a third party's right to defeat a negligent employer's resort to the Labor Code reimbursement remedies?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Nelsen v. Workmen's Comp. App. Bd., 11 Cal.App.3d 472, 89 Cal.Rptr. 638 (Cal. App. 1970):
The third party's right to defeat the negligent employer's resort to the Labor Code reimbursement remedies was based in Witt on the policy that such employer should not be allowed to profit by his own wrong. (De Cruz v. Reid, supra, 69 Cal.2d
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