No Benefits Due For Occupational Dust Exposure, High Court Majority Says

(November 5, 2018, 12:57 PM EST) -- CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The majority of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals on Nov. 2 affirmed a workers’ compensation board of review’s decision that four claimants are not entitled to benefits for occupational pneumoconiosis (OP) arising out of their work in coal mines and a factory because none of the four claimants filed claims within three years of their date of last exposure or within three years of being diagnosed with an impairment as a result of the OP (Lester Pennington Jr. v. West Virginia Office of the Insurance Commissioner, Nos. 17-1060, 17-1061, 17-1063, 17-1123, W. Va. Sup., 2018 W. Va. LEXIS 676)....

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