Fred Gledhill Chevrolet v. Industrial Accident Commission

This proceeding involves the proper allocation of liability for temporary disability indemnity and medical care where the applicant has suffered a series of injuries, in this ease four. The Industrial Accident Commission made the award against Universal Underwriters Insurance Company, the carrier at the time of the third and fourth injuries. This award is supported by the factual determinations made by the commission, and these findings are based on substantial evidence. For these reasons the award should be affirmed.

Applicant, J esse Allison, worked as an automobile mechanic. In the course and scope of Ms employment, he sustained injuries to his back on four occasions—September 1953, wMle employed by Cormier Chevrolet Co., April 1958, November 1961, and July 1962, at wMch times he was employed by Fred Gledhill Chevrolet. Pacific Indemnity Company was the carrier at the time of the first two injuries, Universal at the time of the latter two. After the second injury, applicant had a spinal fusion. The surgery was not completely successful and there resulted a false fusion, or the condition known as pseudo-arthrosis. He continued to feel some pain, but returned to work. He was…