Back to Claims School An occupational disease claim often begins without a clear date of injury. Symptoms may develop gradually after repeated exposure to noise, chemicals, dust, physical demands, or other workplace conditions. The employee […]

Glossary Check How does Illinois define "occupational disease" under the state's Workers' Compensation Act? With some help from Simply Research, we take a look. Occupational Disease In Illinois, the term "occupational disease" means a disease […]

Glossary Check Under Kansas law, the disablement or death of an employee resulting from an occupational disease "shall be treated as the happening of an injury by accident," thus entitled the employee or her dependents […]

Glossary Check In Missouri, workers' compensation claims must have an "occupational disease" with a certain type of "prevailing factor" to be compensable. What do those terms mean? As Simply Research subscribers know, Show Me State […]

Compliance Corner In the Peach State, the disablement or death of an employee resulting from an occupational disease shall be treated as the occurrence of an injury by accident, something that Simply Research subscribers know. […]

Case File When a flight attendant contracted COVID-19 during the early throes of the pandemic, according to the Washington Supreme Court, the traveling employee doctrine covered her case, and she was not limited to proving […]

What Do You Think? Claims involving occupational diseases often come down to a battle of experts. A dispute involving a long-time custodian, however, shows that a job description can also impact a claimant’s ability to […]

Glossary Check Elizabethtown, KY (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Let's say you find yourself in the Bluegrass State and someone needs to know, for workers' compensation purposes, what an injury is and what an occupational disease is. If […]