Merillat Industries, Inc. v. Parks

Opinion

ELDER, J.

Merillat Industries, Inc., and Michigan Mutual Insurance Co. (appellants) appeal from an award by the Industrial Commission compensating Carter McKinnon Parks (claimant) for temporary total work incapacity beginning September 15, 1989, and continuing. Appellants assert (1) that the commission erred in entering an award based on an “occupational disease,” when as a matter of law there was not a disease but instead a noncompensable cumulative injury, and (2) that no credible evidence supported the commission’s conclusion that there was an occupational disease. We find no merit…