Porter v. Combustion Engineering, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on McCloskey v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board · Kusenko v. Republic Steel Corp. · Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board v. Mifflin-Juniata State Health Foundation · SEPTA v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board · Thiele, Inc. v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board
Most-quoted passages
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“‘[W]here there are multiple causes of death and the immediate cause was non-eompen-sable, the requirements of § 301(c)(2) may be met by a showing with unequivocal medical evidence that the deceased suffered from an occupational disease and that it was a substantial contributing factor among the secondary causes in bringing about the death.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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