"Occupational disease" means such disease or infection as arises naturally and proximately out of employment under the mandatory or elective adoption provisions of this title.
RCW 51.08.140
"Occupational disease."
Applied in 66 court decisions — leading case 109 Wash. 2d 467 - Dennis v. Department of Labor & Industries (1987)
Most recently applied in Stephen Bradley, V. City Of Olympia & Washington Dept. Of L&i (November 2021)
1961 c 23 s 51.08.140
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