When an occupational disease prolongs, accelerates or aggravates or is prolonged, accelerated or aggravated by any other cause or infirmity not otherwise compensable, the compensation payable for disability or death shall be limited to the disability which would have resulted solely from the occupational disease if there were no other such cause or infirmity and shall be computed by the proportion which the disability from occupational disease bears to the entire disability.
S.C. Code Ann. § 42-11-90
Amount of compensation when noncompensable cause or disease affects occupational disease
Known as the The South Carolina Workers' Compensation Law
The act spans §§ 42–42 (216 sections).
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Brown v. Greenwood Mills, Inc. (2005)
Most recently applied in Brown v. Greenwood Mills, Inc. (October 2005)
1962 Code SECTION 72-258; 1952 Code SECTION 72-258; 1949 (46) 565.
Official source: South Carolina Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Carolina statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.