# Village v. General Motors Corp.

> Ohio Supreme Court · December 31, 1984 · 15 Ohio St. 3d 129

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/6758663

## Case

- **Full name:** Village v. General Motors Corporation, G.M.A.D.
- **Court:** Ohio Supreme Court
- **Decided:** December 31, 1984
- **Citations:** 15 Ohio St. 3d 129; 15 Ohio B. 279; 472 N.E.2d 1079; 1984 Ohio LEXIS 1279
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Brown
- **Judges:** Brown, Celebrezze, Holmes, Locher, Sweeney
- **Cited by:** 49 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- 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

## Opinion text

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.

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