OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE AND WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION LAWS

Compensation for occupational disease: hidden agendas.

Compensation for Occupational Disease: Evaluating the Options

This paper evaluates alternative rules of liability and compensation for occupational disease. The criterion applied is minimization of the sum of the costs associated with occupational disease, disease prevention, uninsured risk costs, and litigation and insurance overhead or transaction costs. Options considered include the workers' compensation system, the tort system, first party insurance,...

Occupational exposure, epidemiology and compensation.

The data summarized in this section are taken mainly from the 2000 Report of the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR), and generally refer to occupational exposures assessed to have been experienced during the earlyand mid-1990s [1]. Occupational exposures in the United Kingdom from 1998 to 2003 have been reviewed recently by the Radiation Protection ...

Compensation for Occupational Cancer

The legal scope and criteria for occupational cancer in Korea was out of date. The aim of this study was to review the current criteria for occupational cancer and amend the existent criteria on the basis of recent scientific evidence. The scientific evidence and the legal list of occupational cancer were analyzed to identify the causes of occupational cancer on a global scale. The relationship...

Health Affairs agendas Compensation for occupational disease : hidden