HUFF v. LORAL AMERICAN BERYLLIUM CO.

No. 1D06-4466.

967 So.2d 244 (2007)

James R. HUFF, Jr., Appellant, v. LORAL AMERICAN BERYLLIUM CO., and its successor, Lockheed Martin Corp. and CNA ClaimPlus and ACE USA/ESIS, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Rehearing Denied October 29, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Keith A. Mann, Sarasota, and Bill McCabe, Longwood, for Appellant.

James M. Hess and Margaret E. Sojourner, Maitland, for Appellees Lockheed Martin and ACE/ESIS, and Cindy R. Galen of Eraclides, Johns, Hall, Gelman, Johanessen & Kempner, L.L.P., Sarasota, for Appellees Loral American Beryllium Co. and CNA ClaimPlus.


KAHN, J.

We have for review a workers' compensation case brought under the prolonged exposure theory of injury. Our determination here turns upon our fleshing out the meaning of "injury," as the term is used in the second prong of the well-known test formulated in Festa v. Teleflex, Inc., 382 So.2d 122 (Fla. 1st DCA 1980). Because claimant has demonstrated an injury, we reverse the order of the judge of compensation claims...

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