Claim of Lounsbury v. United States Gypsum Co.

The board’s finding of a “definite link between * * * occupation and exposure * * * and the aggravation of a pre-existing bronchiectasis * * * necessitating a left pneumonectomy” (emphasis supplied) is not the equivalent of a finding of a link between the employment and the particular disease; that is, “ between the disease and some distinctive feature of the claimant’s job”, in which case the pre-existing condition would not bar an award if claimant developed "what would ordinarily be an occupational disease”. (Matter of Detenbeck v. General Motors Corp., 309 N. Y. 558, 562, 561.) Although,…