Kosek v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “It is clear from reading this that the Referee did not make a finding that the Claimant was free from an occupational disease. Rather the Referee finds the ¡Claimant is neither partially or totally disabled from coal worker’s pneumoconiosis and as such has not suffered a compensable injury. The Referee finding pulmonary function studies are normal is not tantamount to a finding there is no disease process. We thus reaffirm the prior Board’s Decision that this present Claim Petition is not barred by the doctrine of res judicata. (Emphasis in original.) since the Referee’s earlier disallowance decision, dated May 20, 1975; that clinical findings, ventilatory studies, and diffusion capacity results are no longer normal; that claimant manifests definite pulmonary impairment and dysfunction; and that he became totally disabled due to anthracosilicosis on October 14, 1976.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Gateway Coal Co. v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board