Aetna Life Insurance v. Industrial Accident Commission

Aetna Life Insurance Company seeks review of an order of the Industrial Accident Commission which denies Aetna’s claim of lien against $2,400 payable to Leo Y. Nowak, an employe of Consolidated Yultee Aircraft Corporation, under a compromise agreement between the employe and American Motorists Insurance Company, the workmen’s compensation insurance carrier of Yultee.

Petitioner contends, in effect, that the Industrial Accident Commission has failed in this ease to give effect to the legislative intention, declared in the Workmen’s Compensation Act (Lab. Code, § 4903, par. (f)) and the…