ESTEP v. STATE WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION COM'R

Case No. 15324.

298 S.E.2d 142 (1982)

Virgil L. ESTEP v. STATE WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION COMMISSIONER, Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board and National Coal Mining Co.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

November 24, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Timothy G. Leach, UMWA, Charleston, for appellant.

Eiland & Bennell, Logan, for appellees.

Amos C. Wilson, Logan, amicus curiae.


McGRAW, Justice:

The claimant appeals from a decision of the Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board which denied him permanent total disability. In an order dated July 15, 1982, this Court found that the claimant had suffered two compensable injuries due to occupational pneumoconiosis. Ford v. State Workmen's Compensation Commissioner, W.Va., 236 S.E.2d 234 (1977). The claimant's combined disability totaled 85 percent, the statutory...

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