DOL Adds La Jolla Workers to Exposure Cohort

Former employees of General Atomics in La Jolla, California, are included in a new class of workers added to the Special Exposure Cohort of the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act, the Department of Labor announced. A worker who is included in a designated Special Exposure Cohort and is diagnosed with one of 22 specified cancers is eligible for a presumption that the cancer was caused by work. The secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services added to the Special Exposure Cohort all atomic weapons employees who worked for General Atomics at its L...