Miller v. Western Electric Co.

ADKINS, Judge.

Maryland provides worker compensation benefits when an employee “suffers from an occupational disease, and is thereby disabled from performing his work in the last occupation in which he was injuriously exposed to the hazards of such disease____” Md. Code Ann. (1957, 1985 Repl.Vol.) Art. 101, § 22(a). For purposes of this occupational disease provision, “ ‘[Disablement ’ ... means the event of an employee’s becoming actually incapacitated, either partly or totally, because of an occupational disease ...; and ‘disability ’ means the state of being so incapacitated.’’ Art. 101, §…