ARGONAUT INSURANCE EXCHANGE, Petitioner, v. INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT COMMISSION and M. FRANCES BELLINGER et al. , Respondents. The panel set aside the referee's approval of the compromise and release agreement and substituted its own findings and award. Petitioner first challenges the jurisdiction of respondent commission to annul the referee's order approving the parties' compromise and release agreement. In 1951, the Legislature amended section 115 of the Labor Code so as to grant referees authority to issue original decisions. However, no authority was given to referees to render an original decision approving a compromise or release agreement.

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