SAUER v. TIFFANY LAUNDRY & DRY CLEANERS

No. 21276.

622 N.W.2d 741 (2001)

2001 SD 24

Debrah K. SAUER, Appellant, v. TIFFANY LAUNDRY & DRY CLEANERS, Employer and Appellee. Crum & Forster Commercial Insurance Companies, Insurer Defendants and Third-Party Petitioners and Appellees, v. Rockwood Insurance Companies, Third-Party Insurer.

Supreme Court of South Dakota.

Decided February 28, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rory King of Siegel, Barnett & Schutz, Aberdeen, for appellant Debrah K. Sauer.

Kenneth L. Chleborad of Costello, Porter, Hill, Heisterkamp, Bushnell & Carpenter, Rapid City, for appellees Tiffany Laundry and Rockwood Insurance Companies.

David A. Gerdes of May, Adam, Gerdes & Thompson, Pierre, for appellees Crum & Forster Insurance Company.


KONENKAMP, Justice.

[¶ 1.] In this appeal, we consider whether an employee who developed skin and bronchial problems coincident with her employment in a commercial laundry suffered from an occupational disease. The Department of Labor denied her claim, concluding that the employee could not meet the statutory definition of an occupational disease because her condition was not peculiar to her occupation. On appeal, the circuit court affirmed, and we uphold that...

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