Court Opinion

ID: 9540972
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 16:21:20.292439+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:01:56.993399
License: Public Domain

SULLIVAN, Judge,
concurring.
I concur because the issue of liability on the part of Carrier for failure to provide workmen's compensation insurance was fully and fairly litigated and was determined adversely to Top Quality and Creech. All other issues are subsumed within this determination.
For this reason, I do not believe that it is necessary to decide, as does the majority, that there was a duty or opportunity on the part of Top Quality to assert a settlement-release defense before it paid the $10,000 to Creech. I also decline to join that part of the opinion which states that failure to assert a legal "defense" against efforts to enforee a judgment constitutes a failure to "mitigate damages." Maj.Op. at 748.