KENTUCKY-FRIED SUBROGATION: Supreme Court Delivers Carriers a Long-Overdue Victory in Kentucky Workers’ Compensation Subrogation K-VA-T Food Stores, Inc. v. Blackburn, 2026 WL 2510926 (Ky. 2026)
Kentucky has not been kind to workers’ compensation subrogation. In our 2023 article, “The Ten Best and Ten Worst States for Subrogating”, we ranked Kentucky as the fifth-worst state in the country. We wrote: Only recently has Kentucky become a bad jurisdiction for workers’ compensation subrogation. It drops to No. 5 thanks to Arkansas being…