What the Experts Are Saying:
The Testimony of Dr. Jay T. Segarra - Part II

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On Indivisible/Divisible Injuries

Ryan Beason: Okay. Let me ask you now about situations as we have here today, one of them where you've got a diagnosis of asbestosis and silicosis or mixed-dust Pneumoconiosis...In looking at those patients - and I'm not talking to you about any one specific right now....Are you able to look at that and give a percentage of injury that is due to the silicosis component and a percentage of injury due to the asbestosis component?

Segarra: Generally speaking, no... You can determine radiographically which disease seems to …