AETNA LIFE INS. CO. v. IND. ACC. COM.

Docket No. L.A. 22103.

38 Cal.2d 599 (1952)

241 P.2d 530

AETNA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY (a Corporation), Petitioner, v. INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT COMMISSION, LEO V. NOWAK et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

March 18, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Sherman Welpton, Jr., Herlihy & Herlihy and M.A. Cornell, Jr., for Petitioner.

Sidney L. Weinstock as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioner.

Edmund J. Thomas, Jr., T. Groezinger and Thomas L. Higbee for Respondents.


SCHAUER, J.

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 V. Nowak, an employe of Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation, under a compromise agreement between the employe and American Motorists Insurance Company, the workmen's compensation insurance carrier of Vultee.

Petitioner contends, in effect, that the Industrial Accident Commission has failed...

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