Welch v. Westran Corp.

Prior legal precedents and the legislative history of the workmen’s compensation law mandate an affirmance of the referee’s opinion, the WCAB, and the Court of Appeals in each of these cases.

The facts and the pertinent sections of the act are set forth in Justice Williams’ opinion.

Part VII, § 2 was included in the original occupational disease amendment, 1937 PA 61, to provide the benefits of workmen’s compensation legislation to those workers injured by other than an "accident”. It was necessitated by a decision of this Court that:

"it was not the intention of the legislature to provide…