Robin v. Royal Improvement Co.

OTIS, Justice.

Johnson’s Building Mart and its insurer, Allied Mutual Insurance Company, 1 seek review of a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Court of Appeals awarding against relators alone benefits to respondent, George Robin, for temporary total and permanent partial disability from the occupational disease of asbestosis. The principal issue is whether the award should be equitably apportioned between Johnson’s and prior employers inasmuch as the asbestos exposure with Johnson’s was only a small part of the total. The court held it could not apportion on the facts herein and we affirm…