Charter Oak Fire Insurance Company v. Perez

PEDEN, Justice.

Occupational disease case under the Workmen’s Compensation Insurance Act. The carrier has appealed from the judgment based on a jury finding that the claimant was totally and permanently dis abled by having been poisoned by certain substances he had inhaled.

Perez was employed by Todd Shipyards Corporation, where he had worked for several years as a welder.

In answering the special issues submitted to it, the jury found: 1) Perez sustained an occupational disease by reason of poisoning by carbon dioxide, or carbon monoxide or nitrous fumes or zinc or all or any combination of…