Court Opinion

ID: 9692892
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 16:10:38.162896+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:19:37.888047
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Shepherd, J.
(concurring). I agree with the result in this case since there was adequate evidence in the record for the wcab to find that the plaintiff was cured as of June 11, 1979, and that therefore the award should be closed as of that date.
I do not agree that the evidence supports the conclusion that the disease in question was an *558ordinary disease of life. The only evidence in the record relating to this question indicates that the disease is acquired and not inherited. There is also no evidence that the disease was acquired anywhere other than the place of employment. In any event, if the plaintiff had an underlying condition, it was clearly aggravated by the work place. I believe that the language in the wcab opinion that this was nothing more than an exacerbation of symptomatology raises a distinction without a difference. Otherwise, why would plaintiff have received workers’ compensation benefits in the first place for any period?
Now that plaintiff is cured, he simply has a problem in that he may not go back to his former employment because of his condition. I agree that that is not a problem that has been addressed by the workers’ compensation statutes.