Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. v. Industrial Accident Commission

The Pickering Lumber Company, at all the times herein mentioned, was a corporation organized under the laws of the state of Delaware, and duly authorized to transact business in this state, and during the same time the petitioner herein, the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company, was a corporation organized under the laws of the state of Connecticut, duly authorized to become sole surety on bonds and undertakings in this state. On the fourteenth day of May, 1926, said Pickering Lumber Company, pursuant to section 29, subdivision (a) 2 of the Workmen’s Compensation, Insurance and Safety Act of 1917, as an employer under said Compensation Act, secured the payment of compensation to its injured employees and to the dependents of its killed employees by securing from the Industrial Accident Commission a certificate of consent to self-insure, said certificate being issued on May 14, 1926, and the same remained in force and effect continuously from said last-named day to and including the seventeenth day of July, 1931, at which date it was revoked. As a prerequisite to the issuance to said Pickering Lumber Company of said certificate to *43 self-insure, the Industrial Accident…