State Compensation Insurance Fund v. Industrial Accident Commission

By this petition, the State Compensation Insurance Fund seeks the annulment or modification of a workmen’s compensation award made to Harold Hutchinson by the Industrial Accident Commission. In our opinion the award was excessive.

On July 7, 1958, Hutchinson injured his neck when he fell while working within the course and scope of his employment. Based upon a finding of “Constant minimal pain in the back of neck extending out over left shoulder, at times extending to the right shoulder, at times extending to the fingertips of both hands; at times pain becomes slight, particularly in…