Champlain Cable Corp. v. Employers Mutual Liability Insurance Co. of Wisconsin

HORSEY, Justice:

This appeal concerns an asbestos-related workmen’s compensation coverage dispute between an employer-self-insurer and the employer’s previous compensation insurance carriers. The question presented is when does insurance coverage attach and an insurer’s liability result for employees who have contracted compensable occupational diseases from lengthy exposure to asbestos where the employee’s exposure continues over the policy periods of successive compensation insurers but his illness does not become manifest until after the employer has become a self-insurer. The principal…