Mutual Chemical Co. v. Thurston

The sole question on this appeal is whether there was sufficient evidence to support the findings of the Medical Board for Occupational Diseases (the Medical Board) to the effect that the claimant had sustained a compensable occupational disease—from long exposure to the inhalation of chrome products—which resulted in permanent total disability. The Workmen’s Compensation Commission (the Commission) affirmed the Medical Board, and when the Superior Court of Baltimore City affirmed the Commission, the employer and insurer ap pealed, claiming primarily that the pulmonary dust disease the…