MILLER v. WESTERN ELECTRIC CO.

No. 144, September Term, 1986.

310 Md. 173 (1987)

528 A.2d 486

DORIS M. MILLER v. WESTERN ELECTRIC COMPANY.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

July 29, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James J. Nolan, Jr. (Brennan & Brennan, on brief), Baltimore, for appellant.

Steven S. Stephens (Joseph B. Harlan and Birrane, Harlan & Sharretts, on brief), Baltimore, for appellee.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., COLE, RODOWSKY, COUCH, McAULIFFE and ADKINS, JJ., and CHARLES E. ORTH, Jr., Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals (Retired) Specially Assigned.


ADKINS, Judge.

Maryland provides worker compensation benefits when an employee "suffers from an occupational disease, and is thereby disabled from performing his work in the last occupation in which he was injuriously exposed to the hazards of such disease...." Md. Code Ann. (1957, 1985 Repl.Vol.) Art. 101, § 22(a). For purposes of this occupational disease provision, "`[D]isablement' ... means the event of an employee's becoming actually incapacitated...

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