{"id":1809,"date":"2018-11-30T20:51:18","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T20:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/?p=1809"},"modified":"2018-11-30T20:51:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T20:51:55","slug":"las-enfermedades-profesionales-pueden-ser-dificiles-de-probar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/es\/2018\/11\/workplace-illnesses-can-be-hard-to-prove\/","title":{"rendered":"Las enfermedades profesionales pueden ser dif\u00edciles de probar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania\u2019s workers\u2019 compensation law provides <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dli.pa.gov\/Businesses\/swif\/claims\/Pages\/What-is-Work-Related-Inury-and-Occupational-Disease.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">coverage for workers who suffer illnesses<\/a> due to workplace conditions, but those illnesses and their causes are not always apparent. Filing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/practice-areas\/workers-compensation\/\">workers\u2019 compensation claims<\/a> in such instances can threaten job security.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.workcompcentral.com\/news\/article\/id\/95aefc58f92378fb8ef676a2396d64e0fc97ba1b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Six former workers at a Philadelphia shooting range<\/a> in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas recently accused the range owners of unlawfully firing them after filing workers\u2019 compensation claims. The workers say they took ill after breathing toxic lead and other dangerous particles while working. The six say the shooting range did not provide suitable ventilation to prevent their exposure to the toxic and potentially harmful fumes. <\/p>\n<p>The owners of The Gun Range LLC argue the workers cannot prove they filed claims for workers\u2019 compensation coverage prior to their firings. The owners also argue the workers cannot prove a cause of action that demonstrates wrongful termination. <\/p>\n<p>The case is a good example of how experienced workplace injury representation can help workers obtain fair compensation for workplace injuries and illnesses. <\/p>\n<p>The disease or illness must occur due to exposure while working, and its cause must relate to the worker\u2019s occupation. If a disease occurs substantially more often in that occupation than it does in the general population, Pennsylvania law requires coverage as a type of workplace injury. Proving workplace illnesses, though, is difficult without the guidance of an experienced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/practice-areas\/worksite-accidents\/\">workplace injury attorney<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[footer block_id=&#8217;721&#8242;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La ley de indemnizaci\u00f3n por accidentes de trabajo de Pensilvania ofrece cobertura a los trabajadores que padecen enfermedades derivadas de las condiciones del lugar de trabajo, pero esas enfermedades y sus causas no siempre son evidentes. Presentar reclamaciones de indemnizaci\u00f3n por accidentes de trabajo en tales casos puede poner en peligro la seguridad laboral. Seis antiguos trabajadores de un campo de tiro de Filadelfia, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia del Condado de Filadelfia, acusaron recientemente a\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1810,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[278,416,265],"class_list":["post-1809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-workers-compensation","tag-work-injury","tag-workplace-illness","tag-workplace-injury"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1811,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions\/1811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrilloandgoldberg.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}