The following excerpt is from Todd Shipyards Corp. v. Black, 717 F.2d 1280 (9th Cir. 1983):
3 Section 2(2) of the LHWCA defines "injury" as "such occupational disease or infection as arises naturally out of such employment...." 33 U.S.C. Sec. 902(2). See also Fulks v. Avondale Shipyards, Inc., 637 F.2d 1008, 1012 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 454 U.S. 1080, 102 S.Ct. 633, 70 L.Ed.2d 613 (1981) (a disease arising from occupational exposure is compensable under the Act).
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