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HB 2556 Workers' compensation; occupational diseases.

Introduced by: C. Richard Cranwell | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY:

Workers' compensation; ordinary diseases of life, carpal tunnel syndrome. Defines hearing loss and the condition of carpal tunnel syndrome as ordinary diseases of life for the purpose of receiving worker's compensation benefits. Ordinary diseases of life are compensable if a claimant establishes by clear and convincing evidence that the disease arose out of and in the course of employment and did not result from causes outside the employment. The claimant must also prove by clear and convincing evidence that the disease either (i) follows as an incident of occupational disease, (ii) is a disease contracted in the course of employment within the medical or a similar field, or (iii) is characteristic of the employment and was caused by conditions peculiar to such employment.


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