Columbia Casualty Co. v. Industrial Accident Commission

The question to be considered in this cause, which involves a dispute between the state insurance commissioner and a surety on a bond executed to qualify an indemnity company writing workmen’s compensation insurance to do business in this state, is whether or not the Industrial Accident Commission has any jurisdiction to make an award against the surety in an amount representing an unpaid compensation award previously rendered by the Commission against certain workmen’s compensation carriers. The insurance commissioner, joining, as trustee, with the beneficiary of the award, in turn sought an…