California-Western States Life Insurance v. Industrial Accident Commission

Petitioner, carrier of employer’s unemployment disability insurance under a voluntary plan (Unemployment Insurance Act, 3 Deering’s Gen. Laws, Act 8780d, art. 10, pt. 6) seeks review of an award of the Industrial Accident Commission which denies petitioner’s claim for a lien against the State Compensation Insurance Fund, carrier of the employer’s workmen’s compensation insurance. The commission concedes, as it must, that its original order denying the lien was beyond its jurisdiction because contrary to Bryant v. Industrial Acc. Com. (1951), 37 Cal.2d 215 [231 P.2d 32], Before the original…