Lenk v. Department of Labor & Industries

principal question is raised by this appeal from a judgment which deleted a finding from a Board of Industrial Insurance Appeals (hereinafter referred to as the “board”) order: May the board, after determining that a certain described skin condition is an occupational disease and directing the Department of Labor and Industries (hereinafter referred to as the “department”) to allow the workman’s claim, include in its order a finding that another condition, allegedly disabling, is not causally related to the same industrial exposure?

The workman questioned the board’s jurisdictional power to…