Occupational Disease - Overview

Course level

Intermediate

Delegates

This course will be of benefit to experienced personal injury practitioners new to this area or those needing a refresher of the principles involved.

Overview

Occupational disease cases pose substantial problems for litigators whether on behalf of the claimant or on behalf of the defendant. The technical detail required often masks the essential points that are the vital signposts or way marks to navigating through the difficult areas. In fact most of the problems are common to the many different occupational diseases and it is helpful to look at the problems broadly before applying the principles to particular cases.

Topics covered on this course will include

• The Common Law and occupational diseases
• Relevant statutory provisions
• The ‘date of guilty knowledge’
• Foreseeability
• Causation
• Limitation
• Exposure by more than one employer
• Asbestos, upper limb disorder, stress and other disease claims

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