Pacific Employers Insurance v. Industrial Accident Commission

This is a petition filed by an insurance carrier to annul a permanent disability rating and award of the Industrial Accident Commission on the ground that a report forming a basis of the award was received by the commission after the open hearing of the case, and that petitioner was denied the right to cross-examine the witness making the report upon which the award was based and to introduce evidence in rebuttal of the report. (Sec. 5704, Labor Code.)

In May, 1936, William I. Gale was employed by the Seaboard Oil Company and was injured on the eleventh day of that month. Petitioner was the…