N.Y. Court:  Employer Can’t Apportion Workers’ Comp Mesothelioma Claim

(March 18, 2020, 7:37 PM EDT) -- BUFFALO, N.Y. — The state’s workers’ compensation board properly decided against apportioning liability for a mesothelioma claim where the evidence showed exposure at two employers, but the record lacked any suggestion that a man experienced symptoms or any sign of the disease during his work with the previous employer, a New York appeals court held March 16 (In the matter of the claim of Sandra Gimbar v. Eastman Kodak Co., et al., No. 529057, N.Y. Sup., App. Div., 3rd Dept., 2020 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 1907)....

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