Martin v. Goodrich Corporation

Prospective application of a provision of the Worker’s Occupational Disease Act creating an exception to the exclusivity of the Act for claims which would otherwise be precluded by a period of repose did not violate employer’s right to due process. The employer did not have a vested right in the exclusivity defense of the Act, and applying the provision prospectively meant that it applied to cases where an employee’s claims under the Act would be barred due to discovery of an illness after the provision was enacted.