Aetna Insurance v. Industrial Commission

JACOBSON, Chief Judge, Division 1.

The sole questions presented by this appeal by way of writ of certiorari from an award of the Industrial Commission are whether the evidence supports the Commission’s findings that the injured workman’s average monthly wage exceeded $1,000 and whether his subsequent cardiac, cerebral and gastric disabilities were causally related to his industrial injury.1

On May 1, 1969, the respondent, Robert J. Austin, suffered a back injury, later diagnosed as a herniated disc, while in the course and scope of his employment with petitioner Austin & Wolfe Refrigeration,…