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The U.S. Department of Labor announces outreach events in Pennsylvania to assist coal miners affected by black lung disease with claims for benefits, highlighting the ongoing support for the coal mining community.

Workers' compensation insurance : Workers' compensation insurance Provides medical and wage benefits to people who are injured or become ill on the job. Every state requires insurance, and wages and health benefits vary from state to state. Workers' compensation is considered social insurance because it is based on a social contract between management and workers, in which business owners can protect employees injured on the job from civil lawsuits by purchasing workers' comp...

A trust fund set up to pay coal miner’s disability benefits, while making coal operators pay, is more than $4 billion in debt,

Democratic lawmakers have renewed their push to ease access to health care and other benefits for coal miners who have black lung disease.

In West Virginia, a push for stronger regulations to fight the new epidemic of black lung afflicting Central Appalachian miners.

Mine advocates and companies commented in Washington, D.C. this week, expressing lots of different concerns. If passed, the new rules would attempt to keep mine workers, including coal miners in Kentucky, safer while they work.

The U.S. Department of Labor is hosting a lung outreach event for former and current coal miners and even survivors medically impacted by the harsh effects.

Study Reveals Bias Among Doctors Who Classify X-rays for Coal Miners Black Lung Claims UIC researchers first to publish data on B-reader financial conflicts of interest Getty Images April 1, 2021 — University of Illinois Chicago researchers are the first to report on the financial conflicts of interest that exist among doctors who review the chest X-rays of coal miners who file workers compensation claims of totally disabling disease with the U.S. Department of Labors Federal Black Lung Pro...