34:15-69.2. Order; filing; effect
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2. Such order shall by its terms discharge the employer from any and all claims, demands or liabilities whatsoever for or on account of such an award or the claim or claims upon which it is based and shall substitute such third party as the respondent, obligor and debtor of and on account of such award, the claim or claims upon which it is based and any and all claims, demands or liabilities whatsoever arising therefrom. The employee or the dependents of the employee or the personal representatives thereof shall have no further recourse whatsoever against such employer, but shall have and retain all their rights against such third party as though he were the employer against whom the award was originally entered.
Such order shall be filed in the office of the secretary in Trenton in accordance with section 34:15-58 of this Title, and shall constitute part of the record in the cause, and a copy of such order shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the county in which the original award was filed, shall be indexed and cross-indexed by said clerk to said original award and, when so filed and indexed and cross-indexed to such award, shall have the same effect as to such third party and may be collected and docketed in the same manner as judgments rendered in causes tried in the Superior Court.
L.1956,c.209,s.2; amended 1991,c.91,s.364.