STATE, SUBSEQUENT INJURIES FUND v. Industrial Acc. Com.

The Industrial Accident Commission found that the decedent Monteverde, an employee of the State of California, had suffered an industrial injury which added to a preexisting disability, amounted to a total disability in excess of 70 per cent. It made an award to decedent’s minor child, as his sole dependent, against the employer, State of California, for the proportion of such disability accruing before his death, attributable to the injury incurred in the decedent’s employment, and an award for the balance of the total disability against the Subsequent Injuries Fund. It is the latter award…