Implications of Claimant-Favorable Approaches Used in Dose and Probability of Causation Calculations Under EEOICPA

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• Personal Author:
  Hinnefeld SL ; Merwin SE ; Potter KD ; Smith MH ; Stewart DN
• Description:
  There are many claimant-favorable factors inherent in both the reconstruction of radiation dose and the calculation of probability of causation under Part B of the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000. These factors result in an approximate 30% compensation rate for claims filed under EEOICPA, which is roughly an order of magnitude greater than the likely incidence of increased cancers as predicted by epidemiology studies and risk models. Additionally, there is essentially no chance that a claim that is denied compensation actually involves a radiation-induced cancer. The claimant-favorable nature of the Part B program is often misunderstood or ignored when the merits of the program are reported and debated. This paper provides details on how the technical aspects of the EEOICPA program that favor the claimants are being implemented. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Environmental Health Environmental Monitoring Health Care Facilities Workforce And Services Nuclear Power Plants Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Radiation Radiography Safety Workplace
• Keywords:
  Data-processing Dose-response Environmental-factors Exposure-assessment Job-analysis Medical-monitoring Neutron-radiation Nuclear-energy Nuclear-radiation Occupational-exposure Radiation-exposure Radiation-facilities Radiation-measurement Statistical-analysis Work-environment X-ray-analysis

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• ISSN:
  0017-9078
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 5 ; Washington
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OCAS - Office of Compensation Analysis and Support
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  148-159
• Volume:
  95
• Issue:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20034088
• Citation:
  Health Phys 2008 Jul; 95(1):148-159
• Contact Point Address:
  Steven E. Merwin, Dade Moeller & Associates, 1835 Terminal Dr,Suite 200, Richland, WA 99352
• Email:
  semerwin@moellerinc.com
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2008
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Health Physics
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:5924ff23631c53d65bdbb716a03dfe18990fc066f68a5a72ecc9e26eaab7d190190b5b3e6b6c2f2c0e815264ca47b9034a8dff07a06adb9af37ca920fc4ed3c0
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/189458/cdc_189458_DS1.pdf
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