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June 14, 2019

Judge rejects challenge to Hanford workers comp law

YAKIMA (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday rejected the Trump administration's challenge to a Washington state law that makes it easier for former workers at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation to win workers compensation benefits.

The Legislature last year passed a law that says some cancers and other illnesses among the workers are assumed to have been caused by chemical or radiological exposures at work. That makes it easier for them to win their claims. Before, they had to demonstrate that their illness wasn't caused by something else.


 
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