Jorn v. Pigs Unlimited, Inc.

NATURE OF CASE

Doug Jom suffers from reactive airways dysfunction syndrome, an occupational disease which arose out of and in the course of his employment with Pigs Unlimited, Inc., due to long-term exposure to “hog dust.” Relying upon our opinion in Snyder v. IBP, Inc., 222 Neb. 534, 385 N.W.2d 424 (1986), the Workers’ Compensation Court held that in order to apply the measure of damages for loss of earning capacity, there must first be a permanent physical impairment to the body as a whole. The compensation court found no evidence of a permanent physical impairment and, thus, denied Jom…