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Workers’ Compensation – Settlement Agreement – Asbestosis – Death Benefits – Statutory Time Limitations (access required)

Coffey v. Weyerhaeuser Where a worker reached a settlement agreement with his employer regarding compensation and weekly lifetime benefits for full and permanent disability due to occupational disease, the worker’s heirs are still held to the statutory standard - and barred from seeking death benefits when worker died more than two years after the agreement was signed, or six years after his original date of disability.


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