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Under both acts, “employees are guaranteed the right to receive immediate, fixed benefits, regardless of fault and without need for litigation, but in return they lose the right to sue [their employer].” Lockheed Aircraft Corp., 460 U.S. at 194; see Bilodeau v. Oliver Stores, Inc., 116 N.H. 83, 86 (1976).

Bilodeau v. Oliver Stores, Inc., 116 N.H. 83, 89 (1976) (decided under prior law).

The statute is remedial in nature, “designed to substitute for unsatisfactory common law remedies in tort a liability without fault with limited compensation capable of ready and early determination.” Bilodeau v. Oliver Stores, Inc., 116 N.H. 83, 86, 352 A.2d 741, 743 (1976).

Bilodeau v. Oliver Stores, Inc., 116 N.H. 83, 86, 352 A.2d 741, 743-44 (1976).

Bilodeau v. Oliver Stores, Inc., 116 N.H. 83, 89, 352 A.2d 741, 745 (1976) (decided under former RSA 281:14).

The nature and extent of compensation to the injured employee as well as the *639 extent and manner by which a compensation payor can be reimbursed is governed by the express statutory language and that which can be fairly implied therefrom.” Bilodeau v. Oliver Stores, Inc., 116 N.H. 83, 87, 352 A.2d 741, 744 (1976) (citation omitted); see also Lakin v. Daniel Marr & Son Co., 126 N.H. 730, 731-32, 495 A.2d 1299, 1301 (1985).

at 168-69, 498 A.2d at 744 (quoting Bilodeau v. Oliver Stores, Inc., 116 N.H. 83, 86, 352 A.2d 741, 743 (1976)).

damages or benefits recovered” under “a contractual obligation to pay benefits under the uninsured motorist provisions of any motor vehicle policy.” Based on the principle “that the injured work[er] should not be allowed to keep the entire amount of both his [or her] compensation award and his [or her] common law recovery which would amount to a double recovery,” Bilodeau v. Oliver Stores, Inc., 116 N.H. 83, 87, 352 A.2d 741, 744 (1976) (citation omitted), we hold that Fireman’s Fund, which prov

2A Larson, Workmen’s Compensation § 71.10 (1986); Bilodeau v. Oliver Stores, Inc., 116 N.H. 83, 87, 352 A.2d 741, 744 (1976).

Bilodeau v. Oliver Stores, Inc., 116 N.H. 83, 85, 352 A.2d 741, 743 (1976).

at 196-99, 115 A. at 451-53, the workers’ compensation law was “designed to substitute for un *169 satisfactory common law remedies in tort a liability without fault with limited compensation capable of ready and early determination.” Bilodeau v. Oliver Stores, Inc., 116 N.H. 83, 86, 352 A.2d 741, 743 (1976).

The next question for the court, therefore, is whether the uninsured motorist carrier is “such other person” with a “legal liability to pay damages.” We begin our analysis by noting that, under workers’ compensation law, third-party actions are “based on the concept that the ultimate loss from wrong-doing should fall upon the wrongdoer.” Bilodeau v. Oliver Stores, Inc., 116 N.H. 83, 87, 352 A.2d 741, 744 (1976).

Bilodeau v. Oliver Stores, 116 N.H. 83, 352 A.2d 741 (1976), argued and considered with this case and decided this day.