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Citing the legal precedent set by asbestos exposure cases, a state judge agreed to combine a series of workplace disability cases involving repetitive stress injuries to the hands and wrists. The judge's decision to consolidate hundreds of suits by data entry workers, word processors, newspaper employees, and other workers who use computers into one case is likely to prove detrimental for the computer manufacturing companies being sued, notwithstanding the defense's argument that the cases should not be combined because of the different individuals and workplaces involved

I don't understand those bold colored text.

what is "asbestos exposure cases" ?

what is "workplace disability cases" ?

that entire sentence looks complex .

i could not follow up.

can anybody simplify it?

thanks

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tintin wrote:

Citing the legal precedent set by asbestos exposure cases, a state judge agreed to combine a series of workplace disability cases involving repetitive stress injuries to the hands and wrists. The judge's decision to consolidate hundreds of suits by data entry workers, word processors, newspaper employees, and other workers who use computers into one case is likely to prove detrimental for the computer manufacturing companies being sued, notwithstanding the defense's argument that the cases should not be combined because of the different individuals and workplaces involved

I don't understand those bold colored text.

1. what is "asbestos exposure cases" ?

2. what is "workplace disability cases" ?

that entire sentence looks complex .

i could not follow up.

can anybody simplify it?

thanks

1. Legal cases in relation to claims for compensation by people made ill by exposure to asbestos (most commonly such cases relate to a fatal lung cancer called mesothilioma).

2. Legal cases in relation to claims for compensation by people with injuries suffered at work, which have left them with ongoing disabilities.

The whole shebang:

A judge is hearing cases in relation to compensation for people involved in work where they need to use keyboards a lot.

The workers' legal people are saying that the workers have suffered disability because of the repetitive nature of their work....(ie repetition strain injury).

The judge has decided to allow the workers to have their case argued en masse (that is, to have a case argued on behalf of all of them...we call that a class action in Australia) rather than to make each individual go to court separately.

In doing this, the judge is following a precedent set by judges allowing workers who suffer from health problems related to asbestos exposure to do the same.

(You know about the importance of precedent in the legal system?)

This will be detrimental to the computer companies being sued because it is better for them if each case has to be argued separately.

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I dont get the connection still now.

once you told asbestoes exposure can cause cancers, injuries to workforce

again you told ...
A judge is hearing cases in relation to compensation for people involved in work where they need to use keyboards a lot.
..............................................................
In doing this, the judge is following a precedent set by judges allowing workers who suffer from health problems related to asbestos exposure to do the same.

SO, whats the relation with computer company with the asbestos exposure ?

is it the keyboard the computer company using made of asbestos ?

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tintin wrote:

I dont get the connection still now.

once you told asbestoes exposure can cause cancers, injuries to workforce

again you told ...
A judge is hearing cases in relation to compensation for people involved in work where they need to use keyboards a lot.
..............................................................
In doing this, the judge is following a precedent set by judges allowing workers who suffer from health problems related to asbestos exposure to do the same.

SO, whats the relation with computer company with the asbestos exposure ?

is it the keyboard the computer company using made of asbestos ?

The only connection is via the process of legal precedent, and the fact that both the asbestos AND the data Repetition strain injury case involve workplace injury compensation.

The judge has used a decision made previously by another judge in cases involving asbestos injury in order to help him/her decide whether to allow a class action in relation to keyboard injuries.

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Workers who were injured on the job to to exposure to asbestos at several different companies and in different states filed suit against their employers. Because of the number of issues cited and the number of individuals involved the cases were combined into what is called a class action to better cover all aspects of legal questions.

I think from the way you stated you question that are a talking about individuals filing jointly as a class in order cover all the issues.

Repetitive injuries and asbestos have nothing to with each other expect that the or injures that have happened in the work place.

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