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AETNA CAS. & SUR. CO. v. GILREATH

625 S.W.2d 269 (1981)

AETNA CASUALTY & SURETY COMPANY, Appellant, v. Sidney W. GILREATH, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Knoxville.

December 14, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dalton L. Townsend, Hodges, Doughty & Carson, Knoxville, for appellant.

John W. Nolan, III, Hildebrand, Nolan, Lane, Underhill, Mondelli, Flynn, Porter, Duer & Brown, Nashville, W.P. O'Neil, O'Neil, Parker & Williamson, Knoxville, for appellee.

OPINION

FONES, Justice.

The issues in this case involve the alleged liability of a lawyer to a workers' compensation insurance carrier for disbursing the proceeds of an out-of-court settlement of a pending third-party action without satisfying the carrier's statutory lien declared upon such proceeds by T.C.A. § 50-914.

Plaintiff Aetna Casualty and Surety Company paid workers' compensation benefits totalling $30,875.35, as the insuror of Harrison...

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