Jenkins v. Weyerhaeuser Co.

¶1 Weyerhaeuser Company appeals the trial court’s order granting John Jenkins permanent partial disability and a monetary award based on a ratable hearing loss disability claim filed 23 years after his 1980 retirement from Weyerhaeuser, at which time he had no ratable hearing loss disability. Weyerhaeuser argues that work related noise was not the proximate cause of Jenkins’s ratable hearing loss disability and, therefore, the trial court should not have awarded Jenkins a monetary award for a permanent partial disability under the Industrial Insur-*249anee Act (IIA), Title 51 RCW. We vacate,…