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By Curtis Larsen
Montana State Fund
A research project was undertaken in the fall of 2004 to survey AASCIF members concerning several aspects of their states’ occupational disease laws. The purpose of this research project was to examine potential changes to Montana’s occupational disease law in light of a trilogy of court decisions declaring portions of Montana law unconstitutional.
Montana law contained separate statutory schemes for occupational injuries and occupational diseases. The continuing vitality of a separate statutory scheme for occupational diseases was called into question by these court decisions. The results of the research aided the state of Montana to formulate a new law that combined the previously separate statutory schemes for occupational injuries and occupational diseases.
This article summarizes the results of the survey. A description of the methodology and results of the survey is provided, along with the survey instrument and a tabulation of the results on a state-by-state basis.
Editor’s note: To continue reading this article and see survey details, please click here. Due to the length of Mr. Larson’s report, we have placed it on a separate page to allow for easier printing and navigation.
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