HOLLEY v. ACE AMERICAN INS. CO.

No. 110247.

313 P.3d 917 (2013)

2013 OK 88

Rachel HOLLEY, Plaintiff/Appellee, v. ACE AMERICAN INSURANCE COMPANY and Unit Corporation, Defendants/Appellants.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

October 22, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rex Travis & Paul Kouri , Travis Law Office, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, for Plaintiff/Appellee.

Brandy L. Shores , Latham, Wagner, Steele & Lehman, Tulsa, Oklahoma, for Defendants/Appellants.


REIF, V.C.J.

¶ 1 This Court is asked to decide whether Oklahoma law prohibiting subrogation of workers' compensation death benefits prevents Ace American Insurance Company (Insurer) from recouping death benefits it has paid to the widow of an Oklahoma worker killed at a jobsite in Texas. Insurer paid widow death benefits provided by Texas law and is seeking subrogation from tort damages widow also recovered in a Texas wrongful death case.

¶ 2 Insurer...

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