Williams v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board

OPINION BY

Judge COHN.

This is an appeal by Clarence Williams (Claimant) from an order of the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board (Board) that affirmed the decision of a Workers’ Compensation Judge (WCJ) to deny Claimant’s claim petition for hearing loss benefits. On appeal we are asked to decide whether we should adopt a different mathematical formula for separating the work-related portion of a hearing loss due to long-term exposure from the portion that is not work related and, thus, employ the “apportionment method” as allegedly recognized in the American Medical Association’s Guidelines to…