Baum v. Greyhound Corp.

Meyer, J.:

This is an action by the claimant, Helen Baum, to recover compensation. The workmen’s compensation fund (fund) was made a party to the proceedings upon motion by the respondent and its insurance carrier. The workmen’s compensation examiner entered an order dismissing the fund from the case on the basis that respondent had failed to give notice of claimant’s preexisting handicap to the workmen’s compensation director as provided by statute. The district court sustained the examiner’s order dismissing the fund and the respondent and its insurance carrier appeal.

The issue herein is…