Since the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) was first identified in 1981, this disease has had far-reaching social and economic consequences across the US. One of the most profound effects of the AIDS epidemic can be seen in the public health care system. In addition to the problems encountered when human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is contracted by those employees within the health care system, the dilemma of providing benefits to workers with occupationally transmitted HIV seems to be reemerging in new employment settings. Questions have now surfaced as to whether the scope of workers' compensation laws should be extended to employees outside the health care field who have contracted HIV in the workplace. Consequently, it is imperative that employers, state legislatures, stat...
Pursuant to R.C. 4123.01(C)(1), to be compensable under the workers compensation system, a claimants psychiatric injury must have arisen from an injury or occupational disease suffered by that claimant; trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying coverage for a post-traumatic stress disorder condition that arose from having witnessed physical injuries a third party suffered in an industrial accident. Affirmed. (Fain, J., dissenting).
CYPRESS -- The fire department, family and friends. Such was the focus of Long Beach Fire Capt. Hank Zavaleta's life, whether early on, as he dreamed of becoming a firefighter, at the height of his nearly 20-year career, or in the last eight years of his life as he battled brain cancer and helped others suffering from the same occupational disease.
The statute of limitations for an occupational disease claim doesn't begin to run until the claimant first realizes the disease's connection with work, even if the disease was diagnosed at an earlier time, the Connecticut Supreme Court has ruled. An employee was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a form of cancer. Six years later, he consulted with doctors who offered the opinion that the cancer had resulted from his exposure to petroleum products and hydrocarbon fuels at the workplace.
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