Claim of Harisiades v. Sutter French Confections

Appeal by an employer and its insurance carrier from a decision which discharged the Special Disability Fund (Workmen’s Compensation Law, § 15, subd. 8) in an occupational disease case. It is appellants’ contention that claimant initially developed baker’s asthma which did not become disabling " until infection caused an intervening bronchiectasis and emphysema superimposed upon the asthmatic condition”; and from this premise appellants argue that the baker’s asthma was a prior, permanent impairment constituting a hindrance to employment, within the second-injury law (Workmen’s Compensation…