Employee's Credit Co. v. Industrial Accident Commission

This is a petition for the review of an award made by the Industrial Accident Commission in favor of Rose M. Rea.

On January 8, 1916, the applicant, while in the service of the Employee’s Credit Company as assistant bookkeeper, received a gunshot wound through her right arm, inflicted by two negroes who were robbing her employer’s place of business. Due notice thereof was given to the employer, and the other petitioner,' as insurance carrier, paid her the sums required for disability indemnity and medical treatment by the Workmen’s Compensation Act, from that time until February 17, 1916, at which time, the wound having healed, she was discharged from treatment and the payment of compensation ceased. Thereafter, on January 23, 1917, she applied to the Industrial Accident Commission for an award, on the ground that the injury received, as aforesaid, had caused a further disability entitling her to further compensation under the provisions of subdivision c, of section 16, of the Workmen’s Compensation Act. A hearing was had at which the defendants appeared and presented two defenses; first, that the applicant had released the employer and insurance carrier from all liability on…