PHILADELPHIA INDEMNITY INS. CO. v. MORRIS

No. 97-SC-887-DG.

990 S.W.2d 621 (1999)

PHILADELPHIA INDEMNITY INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellant, v. Stephen W. MORRIS, Medora Sanitation, Inc., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Kentucky.

April 22, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raymond G. Smith, Boehl Stopher & Graves, Louisville, KY, for appellant.

Barry Willett, Weiss Frederick Willett & Haynes, P.S.C., Louisville, KY, Charles H. Zimmerman, Jr., Louisville, KY, Bernard F. Lovely, Jr., Vimont & Wills, PLLC, Lexington, KY, for appellees.

Mark K. Gray, O'Koon, Menefee & Gray, Louisville, KY, Richard Hay, Somerset, KY, for Amicus Curiae, Kentucky Academy of Trial Attorneys.


LAMBERT, Chief Justice.

This case presents questions of first impression in this Commonwealth regarding the relationship between workers' compensation benefits and underinsured motorist coverage. The first issue is whether KRS 342.690(1), the exclusive remedy provision of the Kentucky Workers' Compensation Act, bars an employee from recovering underinsured motorist ("UIM") benefits from his employer's motor vehicle insurance...

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