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COLE v. STATE WORKMEN'S COMP. COM'R

No. 14876.

273 S.E.2d 586 (1980)

Bob L. COLE v. STATE WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION COMMISSIONER and Westmoreland Coal Company.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

December 19, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence R. Frail, Beckley, for appellant.

Jackson, Kelly, Holt & O'Farrell, John L. McClaugherty and J. Randolph Query, Charleston, for appellees.

McGRAW, Justice:

This is an appeal from a final order of the Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board dated March 27, 1980 which affirmed the ruling of the Commissioner denying benefits to the dependents of the deceased claimant, Bob Cole.

The claimant was examined by the Occupational Pneumoconiosis Board (OPB) for occupational pneumoconiosis and in May of 1976 the OPB found that Cole had contracted occupational pneumoconiosis but that the disease had resulted...

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