Brandywine Explosives & Supply v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs

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• explaining that disability causation need not be addressed separately where “the only remaining question was what caused the additional respiratory impairment—an issue resolved by the earlier finding of legal pneumoconiosis”
• declining to reverse grant of benefits when the ALJ discredited employer’s expert witness because his “opinions [were] internally inconsistent”
• affirming the discrediting of medical opinions for “ignoring the possibility” that smoking and coal dust exposure have additive effects
• affirming ALJ’s decision to discredit doctors’ opinions on causation “because they had not found legal pneumoconiosis”
• affirming ALJ decision to discredit doctor who “relied only on the lack of a finding of clinical pneumoconiosis, providing no explanation for why he did not believe dust exposure played a role in the [miner’s] COPD”
• characterizing the qualifiers likely, at least, and could have as equivocation

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