First medical treatment for occupational disease is date of accident: Court

Worker challenged WCB's award of benefits beginning with diagnosis more than 30 years after exposure

The date of a worker’s impairment from a progressive occupational disease for the purposes of workers’ compensation should be when he began experiencing problems, not when he was officially diagnosed, the Alberta Court of Appeal has ruled.

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