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Liberty Mutual Insurance v. Rodriguez, ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2019).  This short opinion by Judge Firko today involved how to calculate reimbursement to an insurer for its workers’ compensation benefits paid to an injured insured where the insured obtains a third-party recovery.  The Appellate Division affirmed the ruling of the Law Division that reimbursement should be based on “the fee ratio calculated for the overall settlement and not the sliding scale set forth in Rule 1:21-7.” The Law Division relied on Caputo v. Best Foods, Inc., 17 N.J. 259 (1955).  That...

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