David Warth v. Southern Ohio Coal Company Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, United States Department of Labor

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• holding that physicians' opinions were undermined by an errone- ous assumption that coal mine employment cannot cause obstructive lung disorders
• remanding for potential award of benefits where exposure to coal dust may have aggravated the miner’s chronic obstructive lung disease
• “Chronic obstructive lung disease . . . is encompassed within the definition of pneumoconiosis for the purposes of entitlement to Black Lung benefits.”

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