Coven v. Industrial Commission

TURSI, Judge.

By consolidated petitions, claimants Mary Katherine Coven and Suzanne Scarborough, seek review of a final order of the Commission denying their claims for occupational disease benefits. We affirm.

While working in the same office of the Colorado Division of Employment and Training (CDET) in Longmont, Colorado, both claimants gradually developed a range of symptoms attributed by their treating physician to an “idiosyncratic” sensitivity to chemical irritants in their workplace. Claimants were hospitalized in May 1980 for testing in an environmentally controlled area. The tests…