Hobbs v. Industrial Claim Appeals Office

Opinion by

Judge NEY.

Claimant, Willie Hobbs, seeks review of a final order of the Industrial Claim Appeals Office (Panel) which affirmed an order of an Administrative Law Judge (AU) awarding claimant permanent partial disability benefits of 10.9 percent as a working unit. We set aside the order and remand.

Claimant brought a claim under the workmen’s compensation statutes seeking compensation for permanent disability resulting from work-related, beryllium-caused injury to his lungs. The AU found that claimant’s berylliosis has rendered him “at least 50% physically impaired.” He further found as…