Shore v. Pacific Employers Insurance

Nichols, Judge.

The General Assembly in an act approved January 31, 1946 (Ga. L. 1949, pp. 102, 106; Code Ann. § 114-803), listed various “agents” for which an employee covered by the Workmen’s Compensation Act would be compensated as having occasioned an “occupational disease” if poisoned by any of such “agents.” A comparison of the “agents” used by the claimant in the performance of his duties, as shown by the record, and the list shown in the above act demands a finding that the claimant did not suffer a compensable “occupational disease” as defined by such act.

While it is well settled that…