Opinion ID: 1116091
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Heading: rights of employee against third parties

Text: An employee paid worker's compensation may still assert his claim against a third party whose sole or concurrent negligence caused his injury. Section 27-12-104, W.S. 1977, provides in part: (a) If an employee covered by this act [§§ 27-12-101 through XX-XX-XXX] receives an injury under circumstances creating a legal liability in some person other than the employer to pay damages, the employee if engaged in extrahazardous work for his employer at the time of the injury is not deprived of any compensation to which he is entitled under this act. He may also pursue his remedy at law against the third person. In Markle v. Williamson, Wyo., 518 P.2d 621 (1974), we said that substantially identical language in a predecessor of the current statute provided in unambiguous language that an employee who is injured under circumstances which create a legal liability in some person other than the employer is entitled to pursue his remedy at law against the third person.