Leonard v. Lans Corporation

In Trellsite Foundry & Stamping Company v. Enterprise Foundry (1961), 365 Mich 209, this Court held constitutionally invalid the procedure then specified in section 9, part 7 of our workmen’s compensation law 1 for apportioning liability for an employee’s disabling occupational disease among his last and prior employers in whose employment the employee was subject to conditions to the nature of which such disease was due. The Court’s decision was based upon its finding that the apportionment procedure of the section denied prior employers procedural due process since it did not provide…