Legal Opinion
Doerfer Division of CCA v. Nicol
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided December 19, 1984No. 83-755PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
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 an allergic contact dermatitis — a hypersensitive reaction to these and other substances. This disease, of course, ended his…
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