Street v. Universal Maritime

The opinion of the court was delivered by

D’ANNUNZIO, J.A.D.

These are separate appeals by the employer from judgments of the Division of Workers’ Compensation. In A-6550-95, the employer appeals from a June 17, 1996 judgment awarding Richard Street 1%% permanent partial disability. In A-6551-95, the employer appeals from a judgment awarding Michael Serpe 25% permanent partial disability. In both cases, the Division determined that Street and Serpe, career longshoremen who were in their sixties, suffered from chronic obstructive lung disease due to their work-related exposure to noxious…