DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, DIVISION OF INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS, Petitioner, v. WORKERS' COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARD, JEREMY SHANNON TESSLER et al. , Respondents. Younger and George Deukmejian, Attorneys General, Robert L. Bergman, Assistant Attorney General, and B. Franklin Walker, Deputy Attorney General, for Petitioner. Tessler had resided with decedent for approximately three to four months at the time of his death. * California Administrative Code, title 8, section 10870, relating to the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board's procedures, provides: 'Approval of Compromise and Release. The petition of respondent State Compensation Insurance Fund for a hearing by the Supreme Court was denied August 8, 1979.

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