Court: Worker With Rare Disorder Didn't Suffer Compensable Injury From Silica Exposure

The Arkansas Court of Appeals upheld a determination that a worker with a rare blood vessel disorder had not sustained a compensable injury from his alleged industrial exposure to silica dust. Case: Bean v. Reynolds Consumer Products, No. CV-21-611, 06/01/2022, published. Facts: Michael Bean suffers from a rare condition: pauci-immune anti-neutrophilic cytoplasmic autoantibody vasculitis, also known as granulomatosis with polyangiitis or pulmonary vasculitis and formerly known as Wegener's disease. On May 3, 2018, Bean was 34 and was admitted to the hospital with acute renal f...