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Worker's Compensation and Occupational Disease
Occupational disease must result from the nature of the employee's condition rather than from a specific job. You can receive worker's compensation benefits for occupational disease if:
1. A condition peculiar to the occupation causes a disease;
2. You contract a disease during the employment in your occupation;
3. The occupation presents a particular hazard of the disease; and
4. The incidence of ordinary diseases of life is substantially higher in the occupation than in the public.
Since many occupational diseases take years to reveal themselves, the employee may have had many jobs from different employers in the same occupation. It is not necessary to decide which employer the employee originally contracted the disease as the employer whose job last injuriously exposed the employee will be found to be liable.
What Is Occupational Disease?
Occupational disease is defined as a disease which is due to causes and conditions which are characteristic of and peculiar to a particular trade, occupation, process or employment, and to exclude all diseases of life to which the public is exposed, unless the incidence of the disease are substantially higher in a particular trade, occupation, process or employment than for the general public.