Fuller v. Director of Finance

HALL, Chief Justice:

Defendant appeals a judgment of the district court requiring the Utah State Insurance Fund (“Fund”) to indemnify plaintiff for a California worker’s compensation award against him and for attorney fees incurred to defend him in the California proceeding. We affirm.

The case was submitted to the district court on stipulated facts. John J. Ireland applied for worker’s compensation in California, claiming that he was injured by inhaling chemicals used in plaintiff’s crop dusting business while working for plaintiff in California in September, 1978. Ireland had been hired by…