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Black Lung Program: Rising Rates, Troubled Funding

Leslie I. Boden | May, 2022

This Workers’ Compensation Issue Spotlight explains how the federal Black Lung Program provides benefits to workers with a variety of debilitating lung conditions resulting from work in coal mines. The Program is currently deeply in debt, and the proportion of miners developing black lung disease has increased over the past 25 years. This explores the forces driving increases in rates of black … Read More

Major Issues of Workmen’s Compensation Law

C. Arthur Williams, Peter S. Barth | January, 1973

The chapter examines compensability of injuries, including the legal requirement in most states that the disabled worker must have a personal injury by accident that arises out of employment (AOE) and in the course of employment (COE) in order to qualify for workers’ compensation benefits. The chapter also discusses compensability of diseases, including the limitations … Read More