Under the Longshoremen’s and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act, 32 Am. U. L. Rev. 717, 739 (1983) ("[Ilf a worker’s employment only temporarily aggravated a chronic nonoccupational disability, a permanent disability compensation award would not be justified. Rather, compensation could be awarded only for the temporary time period of the aggravation”). Furthermore, employment exposure that only temporarily aggravates a claimant’s ailment lacks the causal connection necessary to support a permanent disability award. 820 ILCS 31071(d) (West 1994) (an employment-aggravated occupational disease is a disease "which has become aggravated and rendered disabling as a result of the exposure of the employment” (emphasis added)); Hash v. Montana Silversmith (1992), 256 Mont. 252, 846 P.2d 981 (<HOLDING>). Accordingly, the arbitrator’s permanent
holding that workers compensation statutes do not prohibit claimant from receiving permanent partial disability benefits from prior accident concurrently with temporary total disability benefits from subsequent injury holding that claimant may simultaneously receive unemployment benefits and workers compensation for temporary partial disability where statute only precludes receipt of workers compensation for temporary total or permanent total disability if claimant is receiving unemployment benefits holding that disability pension benefits could be offset against both temporary and total permanent disability compensation benefits holding that determination of causation in permanent disability hearing not barred by estoppel because wlhether an industrial accident caused temporary total disability or permanent partial disability are two distinct questions holding that a totally disabled claimant whose preexisting osteoarthritis was temporarily aggravated by her employment was entitled to temporary total disability benefits but not permanent total disability benefits because there was no causal connection between the temporary aggravation and the permanent disability