Green v. Boise Cascade Corp.

WAHL, Justice.

Employee, a pipecoverer for the employer over a 35-year period, sought compensation for permanent partial disability allegedly caused by asbestosis. The compensation judge found that employee’s work had exposed him to asbestos and that he has developed the occupational disease of asbestosis. After also finding, however, that employee had continued to perform his regular work at full wages to the date of the compensation hearing on February 3, 1984, the compensation judge found that “disablement” or “disability” of the employee had not yet occurred and determined that his claim…