Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit June 29, 2001, 00-1449, 00-2788, 95-3291 (Peabody Coal Company and Old Republic Insurance Company v. Jane W. McCandless and Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs)

EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

When he died of heart failure in 1991 at the age of 60, Elwood McCandless was afflicted with cancer and emphysema in addition to his cardiac and circulatory diseases. Elwood’s widow, Jane, contends that he also was disabled by coal workers’ pneumoconiosis as a result of more than 25 years’ exposure to dust in the mines.