Sellers v. Trans World Airlines, Inc.

LOWENSTEIN, Judge.

In this workers’ compensation appeal by the employee, the sole issue is when the statute of limitations began to run on a claim for the occupational disease of bronchial asthma.

Sellers, 58, had been an employee of TWA for 25 years until he applied for disability retirement on December 15,1980, because of breathing problems. He had been a lead mechanic at the overhaul base since 1966. In 1969, Sellers was diagnosed as having and successfully treated for sar-coidosis, a lung disease of unknown cause, and, according to one of the testifying experts, not associated with…