Carter v. Lakey Foundry Corp.

In this workers’ compensation case we are again considering whether the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board erred when it refused to apportion liability among former employers for an employee’s disabling back condition.

In a decision dated July 28, 1981, the WCAB found that plaintiff was disabled due to lung and back injuries and ordered apportionment of liability for payment of benefits for the lung disability. The board refused, however, to order apportionment of payments for plaintiff’s back condition and placed full responsibility for those benefits on Cuyahoga Wrecking Company, plaintiffs…