Thompson v. Burlington Industries

ARNOLD, Judge.

Plaintiffs first argument is that the Industrial Commission erred in denying her claim for temporary total disability and medical expenses resulting from her occupational disease.

An occupational disease must be “proven to be due to causes and conditions which are characteristic of and peculiar to a particular trade, occupation or employment, but excluding all ordinary diseases of life to which the general public is equally exposed outside of the employment.” G.S. 97-53(13). If the medical evidence tends to show that plaintiff suffers from an ordinary disease of life to which the…