Morgan v. Stillman White Foundry Co.

This is a petition for an apportionment under general laws 1956, §28-34-8, between prior employers, of the total compensation paid by the petitioners as the last employers of an employee who was disabled by an occupational disease. The petition was heard by a trial commissioner, and on April 18, 1956 a decree was entered wherein he found among other things that 50 per cent of the employee’s disability was due to the occupational disease and therein ordered the respondents to reimburse the petitioners proportionately on such basis for the compensation paid the employee. From this decree both…