Key legal question
Whether the occupational disease caused a permanent impairment justifying an integrity compensation award.
Extracted holding
No integrity compensation is due because the palliative phase lasted only about eight months; a minimum duration of one year is required for permanence.
Extracted reasoning
The court confirmed its newer case law that a severely life-shortening occupational disease only produces a permanent impairment if the period from the point where treatment no longer promised improvement until death is at least twelve months. That requirement was not met here.