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· 5/21/1999

Double B Mining, Incorporated v. Lloyd Blankenship Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, United States Department of Labor

Citations

  • 177 F.3d 240
  • 1999 U.S. App. LEXIS 9775
  • 1999 WL 321560

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  • concluding that evidence of lesions of 1.3 centimeters, standing alone, was insufficient to determine whether miner had complicated pneumoconiosis and remanding for an equivalency determination
  • concluding that evidence of lesions of 1.3 centimeters, standing alone, was insufficient to deter- mine whether miner had complicated pneumoconiosis and remanding for an equivalency determination
  • noting that ALJ “must perform equivalency determinations to make certain that regardless of which diagnostic technique is used, the same underlying condition triggers the ir-rebuttable presumption”

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Judges: Ervin, Niemeyer, Hilton, Eastern, Virginia

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