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Showing posts with label causal relationship. Show all posts
Showing posts with label causal relationship. Show all posts

Friday, September 16, 2022

Establishing Causal Relationship: Long COVID Biomarkers

Identifiable biomarkers may provide objective evidence in proving a Long COVID claim. A recent report highlights developments in identifying the risk of Long COVID through immune profiling.

Monday, July 6, 2020

Saturday, May 30, 2020

OSHA's vague COVID-19 reporting guidance

OSHA issued a COVID-19 reporting guidance that lacks a foundation in essential epidemiology as well as legal evidentiary principles for admissibility. It is doubtful that court of law would permit the guidance to be used for the determination of causal relationship.

Monday, August 12, 2013

Pending NJ Supreme Court Workers' Compensation Cases

The following is a list of Workers' Compensation cases pending before the NJ Supreme Court as of August 12, 2013.

Off-Premises: Parking Lot Case
Did this employee’s injuries, which occurred when she was struck by a car while walking across a public street to her place of employment from a privately owned garage in which she parked her car at her employer’s expense, arise out of the course of her employment entitling her to benefits under the Workers’ Compensation Act, N.J.S.A. 34:15-1 to -142?
Certification granted: 5/9/13
Posted: 5/13/13
Argued:
Decided:

Conflict of Laws: Preemption
Was defendant's workers' compensation proceeding in New Jersey a "first-filed litigation" that preempts her Pennsylvania lawsuit against multiple parties over the work-related accident that caused her husband's death?
Certification granted 7/12/12
Posted: 7/13/12
Argued:
Decided:

Cardiovascular: Causal Relationship
A-71-11 James P. Renner v. AT&T (068744)
Does the record support this workers' compensation claim under N.J.S.A. 34:15-7.2, which sets the standard of proof governing claims based on injury or death from cardiovascular causes?
Certification granted: 2/14/12
Posted: 2/14/12

Decided:

Thursday, August 2, 2012

Probable Link Sustains Claim for Renal Cancer & Pulmonary Disability

A NJ appellate court upheld a trial court's decision holding an employer liable for workers compensation benefits for renal cancer and pulmonary disability where a probable link could be demonstrated as a result on a worker's occupational exposure to known carcinogens including asbestos.

Johnson v Exxon-Mobile Chemical Co. (2012 WL 3064003 (N.J. Super. A.D.) Decided July 30, 2012

Related Blogs About Asbestos

Aug 01, 2012
Duane “Butch” O'Malley, 59, of Bourbonnais, Ill., who was convicted by a federal jury on September 26, 2011, for the illegal removal, handling and disposal of asbestos from a Kankakee building in August 2009, was ...
Jun 22, 2012
NJ Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa announced that two men and the demolition company they operated have been indicted by a state grand jury on charges that they unlawfully removed asbestos from the former Zurbrugg...
Mar 19, 2012
Whereas the United States has substantially reduced its consumption of asbestos, yet continues to consume almost 1100 metric tons of the fibrous mineral for use in certain products throughout the United States;. Whereas ...
Apr 06, 2012
"Objectives Asbestos is an inflammatory agent, and there is evidence that inflammatory processes are involved in the development of cardiovascular disease. Whether asbestos is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease has ...