Workers' Compensation

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

link] CELLPHONE ADOPTION ACCELERATES Cell phones have become an essential tool in the workplace and a significant source of revenue for their manufacturers. Motorola launched the initial commercial cellular network in 1973 as a 1G analog system. Frontiers in Public Health , 7. That is not the case for cellphone radiation. May 23, 2023.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Artificial intelligence [AI] opens new frontiers for workers’ compensation law firms and insurance companies. Last week, Google announced new applications that will vastly expand how workers’ compensation claims can be serviced, managed, and supported.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Reporting Requirements The new EPA asbestos reporting rule requires certain entities that manufactured, imported, or processed asbestos from 2019 to 2022 with annual sales of $500,000 or more to report their asbestos use. The new asbestos reporting rule is a significant victory for the plaintiffs in Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization v.

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Workers' Compensation

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT ATTENDANTS An Alameda Superior Court jury found the manufacturer of American Airlines’ uniforms responsible for causing debilitating illnesses to four of the airline’s flight attendants, setting the stage for hundreds more cases filed by employees against the company.

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Workers' Compensation

APRIL 5, 2022

For decades workers and bystanders have been exposed to asbestos fiber and have tragically suffered asbestos-related diseases and death flowing from exposure to asbestos fiber. The proposed prohibition on the manufacture, processing, and distribution in commerce will also address consumer exposure to chrysotile asbestos.

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Workers' Compensation

MAY 30, 2022

The “exclusivity doctrine,” permitting a complete recovery of damages against an employer, limits an injured worker’s benefit recovery to the compensation system, barring an intentional tort. A worker was hired by a general staffing agency, New York Mutual, Inc. Workers' Compensation Law § 7.7 (3d

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JULY 3, 2022

A divided NJ Supreme Court upheld a verdict for an employee who suffered mesothelioma, a fatal cancer, as a result of a product manufacturer’s failure to warn of the lethal nature of the product in the workplace. The occupationally exposed employee worked at an adhesive manufacturing plant in Bloomfield NJ between 1954 and 1994.

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