On November 6, 2015 in Eastern Associated Coal Corp. v. Director, OWCP [Toler], 805 F.3d 502 (4th Cir. 2015) (slip opinion available here), the U.S. Court…
A week and a half ago, the Charleston Gazette-Mail ran a well-done article about Ted Latusek, a West Virginia coal miner whose struggle for black lung…
Yesterday Ellen Smith of Mine Safety and Health News posted a must-read story, “The Terrible Numbers of Black Lung Disease,” that collects recent MSHA “Part 50”…
Among the many exhibits that are being made public in the trail of former Massey Coal CEO Don Blankenship, is audio of a call in which…
The peer-reviewed academic journal Labor History has published an article about the history of black lung in the UK from the period of 1918 to 1946. …
In an interesting (but opaque) unpublished decision from earlier this week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has changed course in a case…
Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court denied review in a black lung case that Peabody Coal asked the Court to review. In Peabody Coal Co. v. Director,…
The Center for Public Integrity reports today that Johns Hopkins terminated its black lung program following criticism brought on by the Center for Public Integrity/ABC News…
Important news in the black lung benefits system: The federal government has created an interagency program to revoke the “B-Reader” certification of biased physicians. Background NIOSH’s…
Yesterday in the House and Senate, members of Congress introduced the Black Lung Benefits Improvement Act of 2015. The bill numbers are H.R. 3625 and S.2096.…