Stressing the importance of expert medical testimony in establishing a connection between cancer and the work environment, an appellate court in Texas affirmed a trial court's order granting a former employer summary judgment in a case in which the former employee...
A Florida appellate court held that a Judge of Compensation Claims erred in awarding workers’ compensation benefits to a claimant for an alleged toxic exposure claim in the form of fungal meningitis in as much as the statutes in question—§ 440...
Where a Connecticut claimant timely filed a claim for disability benefits resulting from his exposure to various toxins during the course of his employment and where he subsequently died five years after the original diagnosis as a result of his condition, a claim...
An injured worker’s medical expenses related to intravenous chelation therapy performed in a medical office should have been paid by the employer in spite of a specific state regulation [see WV. Code of St. Rules 85–20–62.2] that precluded the...
It was just another day on the job for claimant when she put on her raincoat and boots, pulled out her sprayer, and spent the day getting splattered with hog manure, afterbirth and hog waste material. In 2002 she felt sick and fatigued and was hospitalized, went...
Construing Missouri law, a federal district court held that a widow, who alleged her husband died as a result of exposure to a variety of harmful substances while he worked for the defendant manufacturing firm, had alleged common law tort liability; her claim did...