Significant news in the world of federal black lung benefits: the Department of Labor has proposed changes to the procedural rules governing black lung benefits claims. …
The American Journal of Industrial Medicine recently published a study reporting a case cluster of pneumoconiosis at a coal slag processing plant in the Midwest. The…
On Friday April 17, 2015, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued a published decision in an important case: Hobet Mining, LLC v.…
The brochure for the 2015 “Pipestem” conference from June 2 to 5, 2015 has been released (and is embedded and downloadable below). This year’s conference is…
Last week the Department of Labor’s Office of Inspector General released a significant—and critical—audit of the federal black lung benefits program’s procedures for deciding claims. The…
Some news came out yesterday about the Benefits Review Board, the Department of Labor’s appellate body that reviews ALJs’ decisions in black lung benefits cases. Secretary…
On Friday April 10, 2015, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed the denial of a miner’s claim for black lung benefits. The…
Washington & Lee University has a nice piece on their website about W&L School of Law’s Black Lung Legal Clinic. The article focuses on the oral…
Erica Peterson of WFPL has an interesting story up about a civil suit filed by a woman who says her anthracosis was caused by a coal…
Yesterday in West Virginia CWP Fund v. Bender, 782 F.3d 129 (4th Cir. 2015), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued an important…