Dunbar Fuel Co. v. Cassidy

The employee in this case suffered two compensable injuries, the first in the course of his employment by Dunbar Fuel Co., Inc. and the second while employed by Fellows & Son, Inc., both of which, as found by the Court, contributed to cause his now permanent partial disability. The exceptions of the latter company present the issue of whether the full amount of compensation to which the employee is now entitled is to be paid by it as the employer at the time of the most recent injury bearing causal relation to the disability or is to be apportioned between the two employers.

Ordinarily when an…