An insurance carrier should not be left unable to pursue litigation against a third-party tortfeasor if an injured party does not want to file suit, an attorney argued last Wednesday before the state Supreme Court in Pittsburgh.
“You’re now leaving the carrier out with an economic loss,” Connors Law attorney Robert Horn, who represented the insurance carrier in Liberty Mutual v. Domtar, said to the justices. “The third-party tortfeasor’s escaping liability for no reason and the carrier is out the money.”
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