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our office does a lot of
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occupational exposure and when you hear
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the term occupational you think work
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and what people don’t realize is that
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work comp injuries aren’t just bending
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over at the water cooler and hurting
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your back or your elbow or neck
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but in this day and age cancer is the
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second leading cause of
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death and illness in the united states
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and people are exposed all the time
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different workers in different sectors
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of the of the economy
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to terrible chemicals carcinogens
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welding benzene cleaners many types of
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things we all hear about asbestos
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but on a daily basis people are exposed
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to cancer-causing agents
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and with the amount of numbers of people
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diagnosed with cancer many people don’t
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realize that their cancer may be related
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to work
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under the work comp law exposure happens
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obviously over the course of many years
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and the date that people discover their
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exposure or have some disablement
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that’s what triggers a worker’s
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compensation case
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now all a worker’s compensation case
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needs to have happened to have a cancer
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or an illness be related to work is
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a direct cause so people have genetic
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predispositions they can smoke they can
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have many things
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but a genetic predisposition and smoking
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does
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even if you do that is not the only
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causative factor
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if somebody has a direct causative
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factor from work
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being around chemicals being around
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second-hand smoke
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being outside many different things many
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different employments
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many different occupations they may have
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a workers compensation case
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and the important part about that is not
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only do they have right for bet rights
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to benefits
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but god forbid they pass away their
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spouse and a state may have a right to
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benefits as well
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and it’s very important because many
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people get sick with cancer and just
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think oh i have cancer it must be from
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genetics or from from my existence but
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they may have a work comp case
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our office is proud that we look into
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that and we’re one of the leading
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firms in the state of minnesota on that
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on that note