A bill to amend title 5, United States Code, to improve the administration of the provisions thereof relating to compensation for Government employee work injuries through the establishment of a medical review board to review occupational disease claims.

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Introduced

2 February 1977

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Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.

Summary

Establishes within the Department of Labor a Medical Review Board of three practicing physicians to review occupational disease claims against the United States. Requires the Board to determine the relationship between the duties of Government employee/claimants and the respective diseases or illnesses at issue. Sets forth standards to determine whether such disease or illness arose out of or was caused by employment.

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Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/95th-congress/house-bill/3055
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