Justice STOUDER delivered the opinion of the court:
The plaintiff-appellant, Gertrude M. Bart, appeals from a judgment in favor of the intervenor-appellee, the Occidental Fire & Casualty Company of North Carolina. The trial court held that Occidental's workers' compensation lien attached to the entire amount of a settlement obtained by Gertrude.
In 1984, Gertrude's husband, Alex Bart, was killed in an explosion at a Lemont, Illinois, refinery operated...
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