February 23, 2024
The Sixth Circuit stood by an administrative law judge's ruling that a former coal miner is entitled to black lung benefits even if his long history of smoking might have also contributed to his pneumoconiosis, denying a petition for review from the man's former employer.
August 08, 2023
A West Virginia-based coal mining company asked the Sixth Circuit to reverse an administrative law judge's award of black-lung benefits to one of its former miners, arguing that the physicians whose opinions were referenced in the case never said the worker's pneumoconiosis was caused by his mining job.