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SHIFFLETT v. POWHATTAN MINING CO.

[No. 44, September Term, 1981.]

293 Md. 198 (1982)

442 A.2d 980

HERMAN W. SHIFFLETT v. POWHATTAN MINING COMPANY ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided March 26, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Victor McFarland for appellant.

Richard Teitel, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Charles R. Goldsborough, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, and Stephen H. Sachs, Attorney General, on the brief, for appellees.

The cause was argued before MURPHY, C.J., and SMITH, DIGGES, ELDRIDGE, COLE, DAVIDSON and RODOWSKY, JJ.

RODOWSKY, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

Amendments to Maryland's workmen's compensation law, Md. Code (1957, 1979 Repl. Vol., 1981 Cum. Supp.), Art. 101 (the Act) have from time to time increased the maximum award for permanent total disability. To be determined in this appeal is the monetary limit applicable in an occupational disease case involving asbestosis. From the time of the claimant's last injurious exposure to asbestos dust, through the date of...

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