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Parties Involved:
FIDELITY AND GUARANTY INSURANCE UNDERWRITERS, INC.
Appellant
HOWARD, NEEDLES, TAMMEN & BERGENDOFF
Not Party
Howard, Needles, Tammen, and Bergendoff
Not Party
The Martin K. Eby Construction Co., Inc.
Not Party
Barbara Zukowski
Appellee

Document Text:

UNITED STATES COURT OF 

TENTH CIRCUIT 

BARBARA ZUKOWSKI, individually, ) 

and as conservator and guardian ) 

of Charles Zukowski, a protected) 

person, and as parent and next ) 

of kin of David Michael Zukowski,) 

a minor, e t al., ) 

Plaintiffs-Appellees, 

FIDELITY AND GUARANTY INSURANCE 

UNDERWRITERS, INC. 

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Plaintiff-Intervenor-Appellant,) 

v. 

HOWARD, NEEDLES, TAMMEN, AND 

BERGENDOFF, a Washington 

Corporation; HOWARD, NEEDLES, 

TAMMEN & BERGENDOFF, a general 

partnership; THE MARTIN K. EBY 

CONSTRUCTION CO., INC., a 

Kansas Corporation, 

Defendants. 

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tes Court of Appd- Uoited S~ h Ciro,i~ APPEALS 1.ent 

J/:\M 16 1990 

:&OBERT L. HOECKER 

Clerk 

No. 89-1214 

(D.C. No. 85-JC-2690) 

(D. Colo.) 

ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

Before SEYMOUR, TACHA, and EBEL, Circuit Judges. 

After examining the briefs and appellate record, this panel 

has determined unanimously that oral argument would not materially 

assist the determination of this appeal. See Fed. R. App. P. 

* This order and judgment has no precedential value and shall 

not be cited, or used by any court within the Tenth Circuit, 

except for purposes of establishing the doctrines of the law of 

the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. 10th Cir. R. 

36.3. 

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34(a); 10th Cir. R. 34.1.9. The case is therefore ordered 

submitted without oral argument. 

This appeal is from an order of the district court denying 

the motion of Fidelity and Guaranty Insurance Underwriters, Inc. 

(F&G) to amend a judgment and allocate pre-judgment and postjudgment interest on the amounts that F&G paid in workers 

compensation benefits. We earlier affirmed the judgment in this 

case awarding substantial jury verdicts plus pre-judgment and 

post-judgment interest to plaintiffs. Zukowski and Ruiz v. 

Howard, Needles, Tammen~ Bergendoff, No. 87-2481 (10th Cir. Oct. 

24, 1988). F&G now seeks to have a portion of that judgment 

allocated to it as pre-judgment and post-judgment interest on the 

amounts it paid in workers' compensation benefits to the 

plaintiffs. F&G contends that the interest awards should be 

divided in accordance with its pro rata share of the plaintiffs' 

recovery. 

We agree with the district court that the applicable Colorado 

law is found in section 8-52-108 of the Colorado statutes: 

Said insurer shall not be entitled to recover any sum in 

excess of the amount of compensation for which said 

carrier is liable under said articles to the injured 

employee, but to that extent said carrier shall be 

subrogated to the rights of the injured employee against 

said third party causing the injury. 

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 8-52-108. We hold that section 8-52-108 is 

clear and unambiguous in denying a right to the interest claimed 

by F&G. We also agree that the statute precludes application of 

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any other Colorado statutes on interest. We AFFIRM for 

substantially the reasons given by the district court. The 

mandate shall issue forthwith. 

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ENTERED FOR THE COURT 

Deanell Reece Tacha 

Circuit Judge 

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