GALES v. GOLD BOND BLDG. PRODUCTS

No. 85-C-1351.

493 So.2d 611 (1986)

Jessie GALES v. GOLD BOND BUILDING PRODUCTS, a DIVISION OF NATIONAL GYPSUM CO., and the Kemper Group.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied October 9, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Judith A. DeFraites, Gertler & Gertler, New Orleans, for plaintiff-applicant.

Lawrence K. Benson, Jr., Melanie Miller Lewis, J. Patrick Gaffney, Milling, Benson, Woodward, Hillyer, Pierson & Miller, P.C., New Orleans, for defendant-respondent.


DENNIS, Justice.*

The issue presented by this case is whether the obligation to pay workers' compensation binds more than one of a claimant's successive employers when his disabling occupational disease results from his injurious exposure to deleterious causes on successive jobs, and, if so, whether one of the obligors is liable for the whole obligation to the others. In this case the asbestosis...

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