Claim of Gilberti v. Joanne Garment Manufacturing Co.

Appeal by the employer, Joanne Garment Manufacturing Co., and its carrier from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board on the ground that there is no substantial evidence that claimant’s disability resulted from an occupational disease within the scope of the Workmen’s Compensation Law (§3, subd. 2, par. 29). The board has found that the evidence established that claimant, a sewing machine operator, is suffering from an occupational disease “in the nature of an enlargement and traumatic arthritis of the metacarpal-carpal joint of the left thumb”. While there is strong countervailing…