Employers Liability Insurance v. Shipman

Felton, Chief Judge.

The appeal from the original award of the board was based, in addition to four of the five grounds provided in Code § 114-710, on the ground that “while the member found that the claimant was deaf in the right ear and was thirty-four percent deaf in the left ear, the member found that there was not an accident that caused the deafness, which the claimant contends is contrary to the evidence and law in said claim.” The issue raised by that appeal, therefore, was the compensability of the injury and this court held that “a finding that he had suffered a compensable injury…