Industrial Comm. v. Betleyoun

While, in a proper sense, a disease is an injury, and in some states is held to be such under the Workmen.’s Compensation law, that is not true in Ohio. Here we have two classes of claims that are compensable, — one growing out of ijnury, and the other out of disease; and it is settled in Ohio that the term “injury,” as used in the Workmen’s Compensation law, does not include occupational diseases or diseases other than occupational diseases. (Industrial Comm. v. Cross, 104 OS. 561.)

The present Workmen’s Compensation law of Ohio does not classify heart disease as an occupational disease, and…