Legal Opinion
U.S. Steel Mining Company, LLC v. Director, OWCP
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided June 27, 2013No. 11-14468PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COX, Circuit Judge:
Federal law establishes a program that provides benefits to miners who suffer from pneumoconiosis, a respiratory illness colloquially known as black lung disease. The program also allows certain surviving relatives of a miner to claim benefits after the miner’s death. Until 2010, a survivor was required to show that the miner died due to pneumoconiosis before the survivor could receive statutory benefits. But since the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act amended 30 U.S.C. § 932(2), a provision of the black lung benefits program, circuits have debated whether…
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