Conroy v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board

COLINS, Judge.

Patrick Conroy petitions for review of the order of the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board affirming a workers’ compensation judge’s denial of his claim petition on the ground that he failed to meet his burden of proving that he suffered an occupational disease as a result of workplace exposure to ozone.

In February 1997, Conroy filed a claim petition requesting full disability benefits and alleging that he contracted a pulmonary disease as a result of exposure to high concentrations of ozone in the course of his employment with Perrier Group from 1986 to November 1, 1996.1 The *933cl…