Dennis v. Department of Labor & Industries

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a worker does not need to \demonstrate a 'logical relationship between the disease-based disability and the work'\
• discussing IIA’s historical evolution from “no coverage” of diseases to broad coverage
• noting compensation is warranted “where a sudden injury ‘lights up’ a quiescent infirmity.”
• requiring courts “to give effect to every word in a statute”
• “ [C]ompensation may be due where disability results from work-related aggravation of a preexisting non-work-related disease.”
• occupational disease must arise from conditions of a worker’s particular occupation as opposed to conditions coincidentally occurring in the workplace

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).