*406This matter presents several questions for us to decide. On appeal, the first issue is whether an employee alleging disability discrimination for failure to accommodate under the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (LAD), N.J.S.A. 10:5-1 to -49, is required to establish an adverse employment action to avoid summary judgment dismissal. We also must determine whether the motion judge erred in denying the employee's cross-motion for summary judgment. In the event we determine there is no requirement to establish adverse employment action, the issue on cross-appeal is whether a bodily injury claim arising from the failure to accommodate allegation should be dismissed because it is barred by the exclusive remedy provision of the Workers' Compensation Act (the Compensation Act), N.J.S.A. 34:15-1 to -146. In addition, we must decide whether medical bills and lost *407wages can be introduced at trial, and if any worker's compensation lien should be applied to any award in plaintiff's favor.
Plaintiff Mary Richter, a middle school teacher who suffers from diabetes, alleges she fainted while teaching due to low blood sugar levels when she was unable to eat lunch at an earlier class period and suffered significant and permanent injuries. She contends the accident would not have occurred had defendants Oakland Board of Education (the Board) and Gregg Desiderio granted her accommodation request to eat lunch earlier. The motion judge granted defendants' motion for summary judgment dismissing Richter's complaint, denied Richter's cross-motion for summary judgment, and denied reconsideration of *1230the dismissal. The judge held that as a matter of law, Richter failed to prove a prima facie case of failure to accommodate her disability because she did not establish an adverse employment action. Thus, her bodily injury claim, which is the subject of the Board's cross-appeal, was denied as moot.
Under the circumstances of this case, we reverse the motion judge's grant of summary judgment dismissing Richter's complaint. Based on our consideration of Supreme Court decisions in Victor v. State,
*408I
Richter, a Type I Diabetic, is employed by the Board as a science teacher at Valley Middle School (VMS). VMS's academic calendar is divided into four marking periods. Each school day consists of eight class periods. Student lunch periods are during the fifth and sixth periods, which take place between 11:31 a.m. to 1:02 p.m. Teachers are assigned to supervise students during lunch, designated as cafeteria duty. Thus, some teachers are scheduled to have their lunch from 1:05 p.m. to 1:49 p.m., during seventh period. They are also assigned other non-teaching responsibilities, such as hall duty and health office duty.
At the beginning of the 2012/2013 school year, Richter received her schedule, in which she was assigned to cafeteria duty on Wednesdays and Thursdays during fifth period, followed by teaching a class during sixth period and having her lunch during seventh period. Richter believed that waiting until seventh period, which began at 1:05 p.m., to eat a meal would have a negative effect on her blood sugar levels due to the medications she takes for her diabetes. Therefore, she asked Desiderio, the VMS principal, to have her schedule adjusted so that she could have lunch during the earlier fifth period. Desiderio responded that he would "look into it."
After Desiderio failed to contact her, Richter sent a follow-up email on September 10, 2012, reiterating her need for a schedule change because of her medical condition. It was not until Richter sent another email that Desiderio responded by stating he would look into her request, but cautioned he could not "undo what he did." Thus, during the first marking period, Richter maintained her fifth-period cafeteria duty for two days a week. With her lunch delayed until seventh period, she ingested glucose tablets during sixth period to maintain her blood sugar levels.
When plaintiff received her schedule for the second marking period, her lunch was scheduled for the fifth period every school day - which satisfied her request for an earlier lunch. This, however, changed for the third marking period, when she was *409scheduled for cafeteria duty and teaching science respectively during the fifth and sixth periods on Tuesdays with her lunch set for seventh period that day. Richter immediately approached Desiderio to remind him of her need to have lunch during fifth period, as she had throughout *1231the second marking period. He verbally told her that he needed her for cafeteria duty because three teachers had to be assigned to the duty. He then suggested that if she was not feeling well, she should sit down to have a snack, and return to cafeteria duty when she was feeling better. The VMS vice principal told her she should skip cafeteria duty. Her union president instructed her that she would not be disciplined for skipping cafeteria duty.
Under the impression that the school's official schedule would have to be revised in writing, Richter believed she was still obligated to remain on cafeteria duty during fifth period on Tuesdays. Desiderio never directed anyone in the school's office to change Richter's schedule, or otherwise noted anywhere that her scheduled lunch period on Tuesdays changed from Seventh period to fifth period to accommodate her medical condition. Consequently, Richter's blood sugar levels on Tuesdays often fell below the normal range as she approached the end of her sixth period class, requiring her to ingest three or more glucose tablets to try to keep her sugar elevated.
Unfortunately, on Tuesday, March 5, 2013, towards the end of the sixth period, despite ingesting glucose tablets throughout the period, Richter suffered a hypoglycemic event in front of her students. She had a seizure and became unconscious causing her to strike her head and face on a lab table and the floor, and to bleed extensively. She was transported to the hospital for treatment. Even though she had minor hypoglycemic events at school in the past, she had never passed out at school.
After the accident, Desiderio sent a number of text messages to Richter telling her that he previously told her not to attend cafeteria duty on Tuesdays. When she again asked Desiderio to make some documented change in her schedule, he placed an X on *410her schedule where it indicated she had cafeteria duty during fifth period on Tuesdays.
From her fall, Richter suffered the following serious and permanent injuries: total loss of smell;
As a result of her work-related injuries, Richter filed a workers' compensation claim. The Board paid $ 18,940.94 for her medical bills, $ 9,792.40 for temporary disability benefits and $ 77,200 for the permanent injuries she suffered.
Richter sued the Board and Desiderio, individually and as principal of the school, alleging disability discrimination in violation of the LAD due to their alleged failure to accommodate her medical condition. The Board's initial motion for partial summary judgment to dismiss Richter's bodily injury claim as being barred by the Compensation Act was denied on July 10, 2015. In an oral decision, the motion judge, citing Laidlow v. Hariton Mach. Co., Inc.,
Thereafter, both defendants moved for summary judgment to dismiss Richter's complaint with prejudice, claiming Richter did not establish a prima facie LAD claim of disability discrimination for failure to *1232accommodate because she suffered no adverse employment action. Richter cross-moved for summary judgment claiming she suffered an adverse employment action to establish a prima facie LAD claim. The Board then re-filed their summary *411judgment motion to dismiss the bodily injury claim, or in the alternative, be entitled to a 100% credit for all the money paid to Richter through her workers' compensation claim and barring her medical bills and lost wages from being presented at trial.
On May 5, 2017, a different motion judge granted defendants' motion for summary judgment dismissing Richter's LAD complaint and ruled that the motion to dismiss the bodily injury claim was denied as moot. Concurrently, plaintiff's cross-motion was denied.
In her written decision, the judge noted that "the New Jersey Supreme Court may later decide to strike 'adverse employment action' as a distinct element in a failure to accommodate claim, [but] it has not yet done so," and held that adverse employment action remains a required element to make a prima facie case of failure to accommodate under the LAD. Because Richter was not fired or reassigned to another position, the judge determined she could not establish a prima facie case of adverse employment action. In addition, the judge asserted that even though plaintiff's injuries were unfortunate, they were not due to defendants' action because it was Richter's personal decision to continue attending cafeteria duty on Tuesdays rather than eating.
Richter moved for reconsideration. In the event the motion was granted, the Board cross-moved for reconsideration of the denial of dismissal of Richter's bodily injury claim with prejudice, or in the alternative, a 100% credit for the workers' compensation payments. Ruling on the papers, the judge denied Richter's motion and issued a written decision finding there was no merit to her LAD claim because by failing to establish she suffered an adverse employment action, a prima facie failure to accommodate claim was not made. The judge reiterated her prior decision by declaring the Board's cross-motion as moot. This appeal and cross-appeal followed.
II
We begin with Richter's contention that the motion judge erred in granting summary judgment dismissal of her LAD claim as a *412matter of law because she presented no evidence that she suffered an adverse employment action due to Desiderio's failure to reasonably accommodate her diabetes disability by giving her an earlier lunch period to avoid a decrease of her blood sugar levels. In support, she relies upon Victor; Royster; Model Jury Charges (Civil), 2.21, "The New Jersey Law Against Discrimination ("NJLAD") ( N.J.S.A. 10:5-1 [to -42] )" (approved May 2003); Model Jury Charges (Civil), 2.26, "Failure to Accommodate Employee with Disability Under the [NJLAD]" (approved Feb. 2013); and N.J.A.C. 13:13-1.1 to - 2.5(b).
This court reviews de novo a ruling on a motion for summary judgment, applying "the same standard governing the trial court[.]" Davis v. Brickman Landscaping, Ltd.,
A.
With these summary judgment guidelines in mind, we conclude Richter's LAD claim should not have been dismissed on summary *413judgment because based on the circumstances before us, there was no obligation that she establish an adverse employment action to sustain her LAD claim of failure to accommodate her disability.
We start our analysis with Victor, where Justice Helen E. Hoens, writing the decision for the unanimous Court, gave a thorough and thoughtful examination of the LAD by our courts and the related Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA),
The Court acknowledged that an adverse employment action has generally been recognized as an element of a prima facie case of disability discrimination for failure to accommodate, but stressed "[i]dentifying the elements of the prima facie case that are unique to the particular discrimination claim is critical to its evaluation[,]" because "[d]isability discrimination claims are different from other kinds of discrimination claims, for several reasons."
*414Commenting on our state's published decisions determining "adverse employment consequence as one element of the prima facie case for disability discrimination," the Court stressed:
Those opinions do so, however, in part because they recite the familiar elements consistent with any employment discrimination case, and in part because the factual setting of each case included an adverse job consequence. For example, this Court has touched on the question of reasonable accommodations, but only as to an employee who contended that the failure to accommodate resulted in termination, making separate consideration of adverse employment consequence irrelevant. See *1234Raspa [v. Office of Sheriff of Cty. of Gloucester,191 N.J. 323 , 327, 340,924 A.2d 435 (2007) ] (recognizing that some employment positions have requirements similar to the bona fide occupational qualifications set forth in federal law that impact on reasonable accommodation analysis); Potente [v. Cty. of Hudson,187 N.J. 103 , 111,900 A.2d 787 (2006) ] (concluding that employee may not raise LAD claim if he or she has refused to engage in interactive dialogue respecting potential accommodations).
[203 N.J. at 413 ,4 A.3d 126 .]
On the other hand, the Court recognized that Seiden v. Marina Assocs.,
Given the LAD's broad remedial purposes, the Court believed that it was time to
chart a course to permit plaintiffs to proceed against employers who have failed to reasonably accommodate their disabilities or who have failed to engage in an interactive process even if they can point to no adverse employment consequence *415that resulted.[4 ] Such cases would be unusual, if not rare, for it will ordinarily be true that a disabled employee who has been unsuccessful in securing an accommodation will indeed suffer an adverse employment consequence.
[Id. at 421 ,4 A.3d 126 .]
The Court, nevertheless, ruled that based upon the record presented, it was "constrained to refrain from resolving today the question of whether a failure to accommodate unaccompanied by an adverse employment consequence may be actionable."
The Court recognized that under the right set of facts, the LAD might cover a disability discrimination claim for failure to accommodate absent an adverse employment action. As Justice Hoens wrote:
Perhaps in those circumstances the employee could demonstrate that the failure to accommodate forced the employee to soldier on without a reasonable accommodation, making the circumstances so unbearable that it would constitute a hostile employment environment. But there also might be circumstances in which such an employee's proofs, while falling short of that standard, would cry *1235out for a remedy. We cannot foresee all of the factual settings that might confront persons with disabilities and, although hard to envision, we therefore cannot entirely foreclose the possibility of circumstances that would give rise to a claim for failure to accommodate even without an identifiable adverse employment consequence.
[203 N.J. at 421-22 ,4 A.3d 126 .]
Almost ten years later in Royster, another State Trooper employment discrimination case, the Court decided in the interest of justice to reinstate the plaintiff's LAD failure to accommodate claim that was mistakenly dismissed.
To establish a failure-to-accommodate claim under the LAD, a plaintiff must demonstrate that he or she (1) "qualifies as an individual with a disability, or [ ] is perceived as having a disability, as that has been defined by statute"; (2) "is qualified to perform the essential functions of the job, or was performing those essential functions, either with or without reasonable accommodations"; and (3) that defendant "failed to reasonably accommodate [his or her] disabilities." Victor, [ ]203 N.J. at 410, 421 [4 A.3d 126 ]. Although these elements do not mirror those of the ADA, the same proofs are implicated: (1) the plaintiff had a disability; (2) the plaintiff was able to perform the essential functions of the job; (3) the employer was aware of the basic need for an accommodation; and (4) the employer failed to provide a reasonable accommodation.
[227 N.J. at 500 ,152 A.3d 900 .]
Our interpretation of Victor and Royster leads us to conclude that Richter's LAD claim for failure to accommodate her diabetes disability should not have been dismissed on summary judgment based on a lack of adverse employment action. Viewing the facts in the light most favorable to Richter, her claim falls within the unusual situation contemplated in Victor where "the employee could demonstrate that the failure to accommodate forced the employee to soldier on without a reasonable accommodation[ ]" and there need not be proof of adverse employment action because the circumstances "cry out for a remedy."
*417B.
Having concluded that Richter need not establish an adverse employment action to establish a prima facie claim under the LAD for failure to accommodate, we briefly address her contention that Victor stands for the proposition that defendants' refusal to accommodate an employee's disability constitutes an adverse employment action. She asserts, "there is no bright-line rule for identifying an adverse employment action" and the "proofs necessary to demonstrate an adverse employment action must be examined on a case-by-case basis." See *1236Mancini v. Twp. of Teaneck,
We agree there is no bright-line rule defining an adverse employment action in the context of a LAD claim. New Jersey has been guided by the federal courts' interpretation of Title VII and civil rights legislation to decide what constitutes an adverse employment decision with regards to a LAD retaliation claim. Mancini,
[i]n order to constitute "adverse employment action" for the purpose of the LAD, "retaliatory conduct must affect adversely the terms, conditions, or privileges of the plaintiff's employment or limit, segregate or classify the plaintiff in a way which would tend to deprive her of employment opportunities or otherwise affect her status as an employee."
*418In the context of whistle-blower claims under the New Jersey's Conscientious Employee Protection Act (CEPA), N.J.S.A. 34:19-1 to -8, an "employer actions that fall short of [discharge, suspension or demotion], may nonetheless be the equivalent of an adverse action." Nardello v. Twp. of Voorhees,
Although an "adverse employment action under the LAD is [not] the same as a retaliatory action under CEPA," we have acknowledged
that an employer's adverse employment action must rise above something that makes an employee unhappy, resentful or otherwise cause an incidental workplace dissatisfaction. Clearly, actions that affect wages, benefits, or result in direct economic harm qualify. So too, noneconomic actions that cause a significant, non-temporary adverse change in employment status or the terms and conditions of employment would suffice. We recognize an exhaustive list of qualifying events cannot be compiled and these determinations must turn on the facts and circumstances presented.
[ Victor,401 N.J. Super. at 616 ,952 A.2d 493 .]
Although we do not marginalize Richter's unfortunate injuries caused by her hypoglycemic event, we are constrained to conclude her situation does not rise to the level of an adverse employment action as our courts have contemplated to date under the LAD. Defendants' actions did not materially alter the terms and conditions of her employment. Nor did they deprive her of any employment privileges or opportunities, or otherwise change her employment status. Accordingly, we do not conclude that she suffered an adverse employment action based upon defendants'
*1237alleged conduct in not accommodating her accommodation.
C.
We next address Richter's contention that the motion judge should have granted her cross-motion for summary judgment *419because there was no genuine issue of material fact as to the failure to accommodate her disability and defendants acted in bad faith in failing to engage in the interactive process to address her accommodation request. She argues that by determining she was reasonably accommodated, not only did the judge fail to accept as true all the evidence supporting her position, but the judge also failed to accord her the benefit of all legitimate inferences which can be deduced therefrom, and improperly weighed the evidence in defendants' favor. We are unpersuaded.
Richter asserts defendants failed to initiate an informal interactive process with the employee to determine what appropriate accommodation is necessary as required by N.J.A.C. 13:13-1.1 to - 2.5(b). See Tynan,
In order to demonstrate an employer failed to participate in the interactive process, a disabled employee must show:
(1) the employer knew about the employee's disability; (2) the employee requested accommodations or assistance for her disability; (3) the employer did not make a good faith effort to assist the employee in seeking accommodations; and (4) the employee could have been reasonably accommodated but for the employer's lack of good faith.
[ Taylor v. Phoenixville Sch. Dist.,184 F.3d 296 , 319-20 (3d Cir. 1999).]
While there were no disputes concerning the first and second factors, there were factual disputes as to the third and fourth factors. Defendants point to statements by Desiderio, the vice *420principal and the union president that Richter was verbally told at the beginning of the third marking period - prior to her fall on March 5, 2013 - that she did not have to perform her fifth period cafeteria duty if she felt she needed to eat her lunch. Richter, however, thought in order for an accommodation request to be granted, it had to be in writing because the official schedule stated otherwise. Viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to defendants, the non-moving parties, a reasonable jury could have determined that defendants participated in the interactive process and made a good faith effort to provide her with an accommodation. Therefore, based upon the record, denying Richter's cross-motion for summary judgment was proper.
D.
Given that the motion judge's decision to dismiss her bodily injury claim under the LAD also included dismissal of her punitive damages claim, Richter contends that the later claim should be presented to the jury. To the extent that we *1238have reinstated Richter's LAD claim, the statute permits punitive damages. N.J.S.A. 10:5-3 provides:
The Legislature further finds that because of discrimination, people suffer personal hardships, and the State suffers a grievous harm. The personal hardships include: economic loss; time loss; physical and emotional stress ... and adjustment problems, which particularly impact on those protected by this act. Such harms have, under the common law, given rise to legal remedies, including compensatory and punitive damages. The Legislature intends that such damages be available to all persons protected by this act and that this act shall be liberally construed in combination with other protections available under the laws of this State.
[ (Emphasis added).]
Thus, the jury must decide whether Richter proved: (1) the harm she suffered was the result of the defendant's acts or omissions, and (2) such acts or omissions were actuated by "actual malice" or accompanied by a "wanton and willful disregard" of persons who foreseeably might be harmed by those acts or omissions. N.J.S.A. 2A:15-5.12(a).
*421III
Because we have determined that Richter's LAD claim shall proceed to trial, we now address the Board's cross-appeal contending that Richter's bodily injury claim due to the Board's failure to accommodate her disability should be barred by the exclusive remedy provision of the Compensation Act. If the bodily injury claim is not dismissed, the Board contends that Richter should not be allowed to introduce medical bills and lost wages at trial, and if she is, then it should receive 100% credit for the worker's compensation payments it made to any jury award in her favor.
A.
There is no dispute that Richter's bodily injury claim arose while she was acting within the scope of her employment. As previously noted, her workers' compensation claim paid her $ 18,940.94 for medical bills, $ 9,792.40 for temporary disability benefits and $ 77,200 for the permanent injuries. The Board argues that because she elected to pursue her remedies under the Compensation Act, the exclusive remedy provision of the Compensation Act bars her from receiving any additional compensation, or double recovery, through her LAD action. Estate of Kotsovska, ex. rel. Kotsovska v. Liebman,
By pursuing remedies under the Compensation Act, an employee gives up the right to pursue common law claims for work-related injuries. Laidlow,
If an injury or death is compensable under this article, a person shall not be liable to anyone at common law or otherwise on account of such injury or death for any act or omission occurring while such person was in the same employ as the person injured or killed, except for intentional wrong.
[ N.J.S.A. 34:15-8.]
*422This exception was first construed by our Supreme Court in Millison v. E.I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co.,
"An injured worker need not establish that the employer 'subjectively desired to harm him [or her]' in order to satisfy the intentional-wrong exception. Laidlow, [ ]
[I]n order for an employer's act to lose the cloak of immunity of N.J.S.A. 34:15-8, two conditions must be satisfied: (1) the employer must know that his actions are substantially certain to result in injury or death to the employee, and (2) the resulting injury and the circumstances of its infliction on the worker must be (a) more than a fact of life of industrial employment and (b) plainly beyond anything the Legislature intended the [Compensation] Act to immunize.
[ Laidlow,170 N.J. at 617 ,790 A.2d 884 .]
Referred to as the conduct prong, the first prong may present factual issues for a jury if the evidence, "when viewed in a light most favorable to the employee, ... could lead a jury to conclude that the employer acted with knowledge that it was substantially certain that a worker would suffer injury." Id. at 623,
*423Van Dunk,
Applying the Laidlow test to Richter's LAD bodily injury claim leads us to reason that her claim is not barred by the Compensation Act's exclusive remedy provision. Considering Richter's allegations in the light most favorable to her as the non-moving party, Desiderio intentionally refused her accommodation request, and it was substantially certain that she could suffer a hypoglycemic event that could cause bodily injuries. This is not the "simple fact of industrial life" envisioned by the Compensation Act.
Our conclusion is supported by our decision over twenty years ago in Schmidt v. Smith,
B.
Should we allow Richter to present her bodily injury claim and the jury award her damages, the Board contends that Millison and Calalpa v. Dae Ryung Co., Inc.,
In Millison, in addition to adopting the substantial certainty two-prong test to determine if an employee can hurdle the exclusive remedy of filing a worker's compensation claim, the Court also addressed the offsets for workers' compensation benefits an employer was entitled to receive when it was held liable in a civil action.
If ... a plaintiff should prevail in his suit based on intentional wrong, he would not be entitled to keep the entire amount of his compensation award as well as his civil suit remedy. That double recovery is to be avoided is evident from so much of the Compensation Act as demands that compensation claimants who have recovered from third parties be required to reimburse their employer or its insurance carrier for compensation payments already made. N.J.S.A. 34:15-40. Thus if the trier-of-fact determines that du Pont and/or its doctors have been guilty of an intentional wrong as a result of their alleged fraudulent concealment of existing occupational diseases, du Pont or its insurance carrier will be able to offset compensation benefits previously paid to the extent that the civil damage award would serve as a double recovery.
[101 N.J. at 187 ,501 A.2d 505 (emphasis added).]
The impact of Millison was clarified in Calalpa for situations, such as here, where the potential
tortfeasor is the employer, [thus] the employer is not "neutral" and, if entitled to a lien, would not in the tort litigation "pay[ ] exactly the damages he or she ordinarily pay ...," or "come out even." This is so because, facially, the employer has paid damages from its tort pocket, but took some of that payment back from its workers' compensation pocket.
[357 N.J. Super at 227-28 ,814 A.2d 1130 .]
The workers' compensation carrier was entitled to a 100% credit, meaning "a dollar for dollar lien" under section 40 for two reasons.
First, "the 'double recovery' referred to by the Millison Court within the context of an injured employee's receipt of both workers' compensation benefits and civil damages for the same injuries focuses upon the notion that an employee cannot have both."
Second, "the 'third person' concept in [section 40] has been broadly applied to both true third person tortfeasors and tortfeasors who are the 'functional *1241equivalent.' "
Consequently, should the Board be found liable for Richter's bodily injury claim under the LAD for failure to accommodate Richter as a "third-party" tortfeasor, its lien on the jury award is pursuant to section 40. In this statutory scheme, the Board's or its insurance carrier reimbursement is as follows:
If the sum recovered by the employee or his dependents from the third person or his insurance carrier is equivalent to or greater than the liability of the employer or his insurance carrier under this statute, the employer or his insurance carrier shall be released from such liability and shall be entitled to be reimbursed, as hereinafter provided, for the medical expenses incurred and compensation payments *426theretofore paid to the injured employee or his dependents less employee's expenses of suit and attorney's fee as hereinafter defined.
[ N.J.S.A. 34:15-40 (b).]
Therefore, if the award recovered by Richter is "equivalent to or greater than the liability of the employer from an award," in this case, $ 28,733.84 for medical bills and temporary disability benefits, the Board is allowed to keep two-thirds with Richter's counsel being entitled to the remaining one-third for counsel fees and costs not to exceed $ 750. N.J.S.A. 34:15-40 (b) and (e).
Finally, we reject the Board's contention that Richter should not be able to present her medical and lost wages as evidence. Without allowing the jury to consider these damages, the trial court cannot determine whether the Board is entitled to a section 40 lien.
Affirmed in part, reversed in part and remanded for trial. We do not retain jurisdiction.
Because of her inability to smell, Richter had to request gas monitors in her classroom.
Richter's reliance upon N.J.A.C. 13:13-1.1 to -2.5(b) regarding adverse employment actions are without sufficient merit to warrant discussion in a written opinion. R. 2:11-3(e)(1)(E). The regulations do not address whether a plaintiff is required to prove an adverse employment action to sustain a LAD failure to accommodate claim.
McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green,
Model Jury Charges (Civil), 2.26, quoted this comment from Victor in footnote number three; noting it as "dictum."
Providing, in pertinent part, that an employee will be "guaranteed recovery for his common-law damages against contributing third-party tortfeasors or for his [workers'] compensation award, whichever is greater, but he may not duplicate these recoveries."
