Hammond v. Hitching Post Inn’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “"The burden in contested cases shall be upon the employee to make proper proof of his claim by a preponderance of the evidence, and to likewise prove by competent medical authority that this claim arose out of and in the course of his employment by showing by a preponderance of such evidence that: "(i) there is a direct causal connection between the condition under which the work is performed and the occupational disease, "(ii) the disease can be seen to have followed as a natural incident of the work as a result of the exposure occasioned by the nature of the employment, "(iii) the disease can be fairly traced to the employment as the proximate cause, "(iv) the disease does not come from a hazard to which workmen would have been equally exposed outside of the employment, "(v) and the disease is incidental to the character of the business and not independent of the relation of employer and employee."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Olson v. Federal American Partners

2. “could have contributed as much to bronchitis as did dust,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Olson v. Federal American Partners