Law, Business, and Society 9th Edition by Tony McAdams

Exercise 26

Casimer Gacioch worked at a Stroh Brewery. The company provided free beer at work. When he began work in 1947 he drank only three to four beers on the weekend. He was fired in 1974, by which time he was drinking 12 bottles of beer daily. After Gacioch's death, his wife sought workers' compensation benefits. The evidence indicated that Gacioch had a predisposition to alcoholism but was not an alcoholic at the time he was hired. How would you rule on the widow's workers' compensation claim Explain. See Gacioch v. Stroh Brewery , 466 N.W. 2d 303 (Mich Ct. of Appeals, 1991).