Niles v. Marine Colloids, Inc.

MARDEN, Justice.

On appeal from a dismissal of plaintiff’s complaint.

Plaintiff, an employee of Marine Colloids complains that by virtue of working conditions under which he was exposed to the inhalation of harmful chemicals, and of which working conditions the company and the individual defendant Pellicani, who had supervisory responsibility over production employees, was well aware, he developed a dis abling pulmonary emphysema. Plaintiff alleges that this disability did not come about by accidental means and since pulmonary emphysema was not an occupational disease compensable under the…