As is the case in a number of jurisdictions, in Oregon a presumptively responsible employer in an occupational disease claim may avoid liability, shifting such liability to a previous employment, if it can show that it was “impossible” for... Read More

The New York Workers’ Compensation Board appropriately refused to apportion liability for claimant’s asbestos-related disease despite some evidence that the claimant had exposure to asbestos at multiple employers over a long period of time... Read More

Today's case du jour is an occupational disease claim involving a union worker based at the Delaware City Refinery from 1982 to 2007. The diagnosis of bilateral interstitial fibrosis consistent with asbestos-related lung disease was not in dispute... Read More