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KAISER FOUNDATION HOSP. v. WORKERS' COMP. APP. BD.

Docket Nos. 50512, 50671, 50798, 50921.

87 Cal.App.3d 336 (1978)

151 Cal. Rptr. 368

KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS et al., Petitioners, v. WORKERS' COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARD, ROBERT GREGORY et al., Respondents. KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS et al., Petitioners, v. WORKERS' COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARD, GEORGE ALBERT JONES et al., Respondents. KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS et al., Petitioners, v. WORKERS' COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARD, SEVER M. LONE et al., Respondents. KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS et al., Petitioners, v. WORKERS' COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARD, CARL SMITH et al., Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Four.

December 15, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Thelen, Marrin, Johnson & Bridges, James W. Baldwin, Robert W. Loeffler and Walter A. Stringfellow III for Petitioners.

Lional K. Hvolboll as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioners.

Banks & Leviton, Banks, Leviton & Kelley, Eugene Leviton, Seth J. Kelsey, David Kristjanson, Mansell & Arthur, Mansell, Manchester, Dean & Long, Stafford R. Leland, James J. Vonk, George S. Bjornsen, Arthur Hershenson, Frank Evans, Robert M. Jakob, Thomas J. McBirnie, Philip M. Miyamoto, Richard W. Younkin, Charles L. Swezey, Frank H. Batlin, William B. Donohoe, Dexter W. Young, Rose, Klein & Marias, Howard N. Lehman, Olney, Levy, Kaplan & Tenner, Barry J. Burger, Leland, Rosner, Samuelsen, Whitehead, Benes & Ringwalt, William A. Parsons, Silver & McWilliams and Bernard Katzman for Respondents.

Warren L. Hanna as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Respondents.

OPINION

KINGSLEY, J.

We have consolidated these four cases for hearing and decision because they all involve problems of the constitutionality and application of section 4903.1 of the Labor Code.1 That section, added by chapter 1109, Statutes of 1975, provides as follows:

"The appeals board, before issuing its award or approval of any compromise of...

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