Industrial Indemnity Co. v. Industrial Accident Commission

Review of proceedings of the Industrial Accident Commission. An award was made, based upon a permanent disability rating of 55% per cent. Petitioner herein, which is the compensation insurance carrier for the employer, asserts that one-half of that disability rating should have been apportioned to preexisting or independently developing arthritis.

On April 28, 1945, Edward A. Thomas, an employee of the United Concrete Pipe Corporation, was injured while he, as a welder foreman, was inspecting work that had been done in the engine room of a ship. In order to go to a certain place which he…