NATIONAL ZINC CO. v. FOWLER

No. 51245.

591 P.2d 1264 (1979)

NATIONAL ZINC COMPANY and Insurance Company of North America, Petitioners, v. Leslie Eugene FOWLER and the State Industrial Court, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

March 13, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Battoglia, Best, Sharp, Thomas & Glass, Tulsa, for petitioners.

John Estes and Mike Blessington, Stipe, Gossett, Stipe & Harper, Oklahoma City, Fred Nicholas and Richard Mason, Oklahoma City, for respondents.


HARGRAVE, Justice:

The only issue presented for review concerns which of two insurance carriers bears responsibility for an award of compensation for permanent partial disability resulting from an occupational disease.

Claimant had been employed approximately twenty-five years in the furnace department of National Zinc Company (National). The fact of continuing exposure to dust, smoke, and noxious gases over these...

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