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 is a serious, and sometimes fatal, disease caused by exposure to coal mine dust. Black lung causes permanent lung damage, which can affect breathing and normal heart function. Coal miners who develop black lung can file claims under state and federal workersâ compensation laws, which provide benefits for workers with occupational lung diseases. What is Black Lung? Black lung (also called coal workersâ pneumoconiosis) is a disease that is caused by inhaling coal mine dust.