1 Mass. App. Ct. 825 | Mass. App. Ct. | 1973
The insurer appeals from the final decree of the Superior Court awarding workmen’s compensation benefits in accord with the decision of the single member as affirmed by the reviewing board. The insurer argues the insufficiency of the evidence that the employee’s pulmonary fibrosis resulted from his employment and that he was totally disabled; various exceptions to evidence and the like are also argued. In the opinion of a majority of the entire court there was no error. There was medical opinion on behalf of the employee that the pulmonary fibrosis was connected with his inhalation for over twenty years of naphtha and benzine fumes (characterized variously as “noxious fumes and gases” and “toxic irritants”) from rubber cement
So ordered.