Hoosier Engineering Co. v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

I respectfully dissent.

Under Section 301(c)(2) of The Pennsylvania Workmen’s Compensation Act (Act),1 the employer liable for the payment of benefits is “that employer giving the longest period of *237employment in which the employe was exposed to the hazards of the disease claimed.”

I believe the proper reading of this language of the Act requires that liability be imposed on the employer providing the “longest period or term of employment,” a quantitive standard, and not, as the majority interprets the language, the employer who provided the longest period of exposure, a qualitative measurement.

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