Weyerhaeuser Co. v. Washington

MEMORANDUM OPINION

ADAMS, Presiding Judge:

Employer Weyerhaeuser Company asks us to vacate an order of the Workers’ Compensation Court which awards permanent partial disability benefits to Claimant Virginia Washington for an occupational disease resulting in injury to her lungs and upper respiratory system. Weyerhaeuser contends Washington’s medical evidence lacks probative value because her expert, while acknowledging her history of cigarette smoking, does not attempt to apportion the stated impairment between work-related and self-induced nonoccupational causes.1

Washington was employed by…