3584 REVIEW DENIED After an employer's workers' compensation insurer agrees to pay the compensation to which an employee is entitled and the employer is dismissed from the workers' compensation proceeding which then continues solely against the insurer, attorneys retained by the insurer to handle the matter are no longer in an attorney-client relationship with the employer and owe it no professional duty.CitationCANTON v STOCKWELL, HARRIS... (WC Attorneys) 109 CA4 1219 [See: LabC 3755; Unigard v O'Flaherty & Belgum 38 CA4 1229, T/AT 11/95]
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