Title: Disease and the compensation debate /
Authors: Stapleton, Jane.
Publisher: Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
Year: 1986
Subjects: Workers' Compensation; Occupational Diseases; Insurance, Liability; Disability Evaluation; Disability insurance Law and legislation.; Occupational diseases Law and legislation.; Workers' compensation Law and legislation.; Occupational diseases Law and legislation Great Britain.; Workers' compensation Law and legislation Great Britain.; Disability insurance Law and legislation Great Britain.
Contents: 1. Man-made disease -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Disablement: some definitions and statistics -- 1.3 The variety and characteristics of man-made disease -- 1.4 Compensation for man-made disease -- 1.5 Outline -- 2. Time and disease -- 2.1 Time characteristics of disease -- 2.2 Time barriers under industrial compensation legislation -- 2.3 Common law claims, statutes of limitation, and latent damage -- 2.4 What is latent damage? -- 2.5 Conclusion -- 3. Causation in fact -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Establishing that the hazard can cause the disease -- 3.3 Cause in fact and multiple causation -- 3.4 Proving cause in fact in an individual case: the balance of probability test -- 3.5 Causal link to the subject of complaint -- 3.6 Causation and no-fault compensation schemes: the accident/process demarcation -- 3.7 Scheduling guide-lines and systems of individual proof: the intractable problem -- 3.8 Causation problems in the individual case -- 3.9 Conclusion --^