State of California v. Industrial Acc. Com.

Petitioner State of California Subsequent Injuries Fund seeks annulment of a purported apportionment or contribution award against it made by respondent commission directly in favor of an employe who suffered permanent partial disability from silicosis resulting from successive employments in underground metal mining. We have concluded that petitioner’s attacks upon the constitutionality of the provisions of section 5500.5 of the Labor Code, under which the award was made, are (upon any proper interpretation and application of the legislation) without merit, but that contrary to the…