finding that prior decisions denying compensability for disabilities developing over period of time because they lacked suddenness, unexpectedness and unforeseeability, frustrated clear purpose of workers’ compensation law to compensate workers injured as result of employment
How later courts described this case
- finding that prior decisions denying compensability for disabilities developing over period of time because they lacked suddenness, unexpectedness and unforeseeability, frustrated clear purpose of workers’ compensation law to compensate workers injured as result of employment
- prior to the Village decision the Court read the definition narrowly to cover only spontaneous, accidental, injuries; occupational diseases are defined separately under the statutory scheme.
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
William B. Brown, J.,
dissenting. Because I continue to believe in the validity of the holdings and rationales of Bowman v. National Graphics Corp. (1978), 55 Ohio St. 2d 222 [ 9 O.O.3d 159 ], and Czarnecki v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. (1979), 58 Ohio St. 2d 413 [ 12 O.O.3d 353 ], I respectfully dissent.