Argonaut Insurance v. Industrial Accident Commission

The Argonaut Insurance Company seeks annulment of an award made by the Industrial Accident Commission to Katherine G. Warren as the widow of Benjamin Maurice Warren. He was employed as a laborer at Modesto and sustained a fall in the course of an altercation with a fellow employee, which resulted in injuries disabling him and ultimately causing his death on December 4, 1960. The Argonaut Insurance Company was the workmen’s compensation insurance carrier for Warren’s employer, a copartnership consisting of Fred and Howard Ilumsey, doing business as Rumsey Tent and Awning Company. Following the…