On Monday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed a miner’s award of federal black lung benefits in a published decision (slip opinion…
In three cases in the past couple weeks, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed awards of federal black lung benefits. The unpublished…
I’m playing catch-up on a medical study that is very important to understanding the risks of black lung that surface miners face. In the January 2015…
The U.S. Court of Appeals issued an unpublished, per curiam decision that provides a cautionary lesson about appellate procedure and deadlines in black lung cases. In…
The Department of Labor’s Benefits Review Board has issued an important, precedential decision in Minich v. Keystone Coal Mining Corp. (available here) regarding black lung benefits cases…
The Citizen Standard from Valley View, Pennsylvania has a story about a meeting in Joliett, Pennsylvania of active and retired miners as well as an attorney…
The American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine has published abstracts from the American Thoracic Society’s International Conference in Denver, which begins tomorrow. Below are…
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.…