Varney v. Newberg

OPINION OF THE COURT

Claimant, whose date of birth was February 10,1929, was last exposed to the hazards of pneumoconiosis on June 16,1989. On that date he filed a claim for compensation benefits alleging that he was totally, occupationally disabled by coal workers’ pneumoconiosis and chronic occupational bronchitis. With his claim he filed medical reports by Dr. John E. Myers and Dr. William H. Anderson.

Dr. Myers had examined claimant on February 8, 1989, two days before his sixtieth birthday. He reported that claimant was 71 inches tall, that he had category 1 disease, that his FVC value was…