Pommeranz v. State, Department of Public Welfare, Faribault State Hospital

Certiorari on the relation of the Department of Public Welfare to review a decision of the Worker’s Compensation Court of Appeals awarding employee, Mrs. Rene Pom-meranz, temporary total disability benefits. Relator contends that the findings that employee contracted viral hepatitis, that it was caused by her employment, and that as a consequence of the hepatitis she contracted a second liver disease, primary biliary cirrhosis, lack sufficient evidentiary support. We affirm.

Employee, a switchboard operator at the state hospital, became ill in November 1973. Her physician, Dr. Bruce Gutzmann,…