Hawaii Court Rejects Airline Clerk's Claim of Illness from Hydrogen Sulfide

HONOLULU - Hawaii's Intermediate Court of Appeals has affirmed a decision of the state's labor board denying benefits to an airline clerk who claimed that a 2006 exposure to fumes from a sewer leak caused myriad symptoms from headaches to liver problems. Kuehu v. United Airlines Inc., et al., No. 30472 (Hawaii Int. Ct. App.).

In an unpublished Jan. 13 opinion, the court declined to disturb the labor board's reliance on physicians who concluded that Donna W. Kuehu's symptoms were clinically unsubstantiated and more likely to result somatoform disorder than workplace exposures.

Kuehu complained of similar injuries in seeking workers' …