Claim of Riganti v. South Mall Construction, Inc.

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed May 28, 1993, which ruled that claimant’s death was causally related to his established occupational disease of asbestosis.

In our view, the November 9, 1990 report and May 5, 1992 hearing testimony of Frank Maxon, a physician specializing in the field of pulmonary diseases, provided substantial evidence to support the finding of the Workers’ Compensation Board that claimant’s death was causally related to his established occupational disease of asbestosis. As indicated in the Board’s decision, Maxon expressed the opinion that…