Claim of Cramer v. BASF Wyandotte Corp.

Appeal from an amended decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed January 23, 1992, which, inter alia, ruled that the occupationally related disease of claimant’s decedent contributed to his death.

It is not disputed that claimant’s decedent had an established case of bronchitis and that this condition was an occupationally related disease. It is also not disputed that decedent had an additional disease, aortic stenosis, which was not caused or aggravated by his bronchitis and that he died as a result of the aortic stenosis. At issue on this appeal is whether the Workers’ Compensation…