Employers Commercial Union Insurance Co. v. Schmidt

ON APPLICATION FOR WRIT OF ERROR

This is a workmen’s compensation case, involving the following provisions of Art. 8306, Sec. 20, Vernon’s Ann.Civ.Stat., as amended in 1971:

An “Occupational Disease” shall also include damage or harm to the physical structure of the body occurring as the result of repetitious physical traumatic activities extending over a period of time and arising in the course of employment; provided, that the date of the cumulative injury shall be the date disability was caused thereby. .

The claimant, Mary Ellen Schmidt, developed a chronic myositis or trapezius syndrome as…