DOERFER DIV. OF CCA v. NICOL

No. 83-755.

359 N.W.2d 428 (1984)

DOERFER DIVISION OF CCA, Appellee, v. Byron James NICOL, Claimant, Appellee, and Wayne Engineering Corporation, Employer, and Maryland Casualty Company, Insurance Carrier, Appellants, and Robert C. Landess, Iowa Industrial Commissioner, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

December 19, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel T. Beatty of Mosier, Thomas, Beatty, Dutton, Braun & Staack, Waterloo, for appellants.

Jim D. DeKoster of Swisher & Cohrt, Waterloo, for appellee Doerfer Div. of CCA.

James C. Wilson and Donald C. Wilson of Wilson, Hall, Wilson & Craig, Eldora, for appellee Byron James Nicol.

Considered by REYNOLDSON, C.J., and McCORMICK, LARSON, SCHULTZ, and CARTER, JJ.


REYNOLDSON, Chief Justice.

This worker's compensation proceeding requires interpretation of several statutes in chapter 85A, "Iowa Occupational Disease Law," to determine which of two successive employers shall be held liable for claimant Byron James Nicol's occupational disease. There is no dispute that Nicol's machine shop work for three employers exposed him to coolant, used in the metal cutting process, chrome and nickel, and that he ultimately was afflicted by...

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