The West Virginia Supreme Court upheld an award of benefits for a worker’s cancer and radiation exposure.
Case: West Virginia Division of Highways v. Scott, No. 23-258, 08/01/2024, published.
Facts: Larry Scott worked for the West Virginia Division of Highways. He filed a workers’ compensation claim seeking benefits for the occupational disease of undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma.
Scott alleged that there was a direct causal connection between his prolonged exposure to radiation from using a nuclear gauge and his development of a deadly form of cancer at the exact spot of th...
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