Executive Summary. Recent legislation authorized the Department of General Services (DGS) to sell and then lease back 11 stateâowned office properties. The saleâleaseback is designed to free up the stateâs equity in the buildings to provide oneâtime revenue for addressing the stateâs current budgetary shortfall.
Our Virginia railroad injury / disease law firm has been representing railroad workers ( transport workers such as engineers , switchman , conductors ) who claim various health illnesses including cancer as a result of being exposed to radioactive substances moved by railroads in and out of a nuclear weapons and uranium enrichment nuclear plants / ...
Black lung disease and silicosis . Black lung is caused when coal dust blocks the lungs, causing severe and permanent breathing problems. Underground coal miners, and children and women who work separating rocks from coal, are most affected by black lung. Silicosis is caused by exposure to silica dust. Silica is a common mineral released from sand and rocks during mining, exposing many miners to harm.