Brown v. Greenwood Mills, Inc.

ANDERSON, J.:

The workers’ compensation commission affirmed the order of the single commissioner awarding benefits to Edwin H. Brown (Brown) for an occupational lung disease, byssinosis, which Brown claims he developed from working with cotton for many years at Greenwood Mills, Inc. (Greenwood). The circuit court affirmed the commission’s ruling that Brown’s claim was within the statute of limitations, but declared the commission should have allocated a portion of Brown’s disease to his long history of cigarette smoking, a non-compensable cause. Therefore, the circuit court remanded the case…