There’s been a lot of noise in the area of occupational hearing loss, with 22 million workers exposed to hazardous sounds each year. But Kevin Sloan and Brian Gross of Manion Gaynor & Manning say a decision from the Louisiana Supreme Court could be just the judgment employers want to hear.
Graphic Packaging, which owns and operates a paper mill, box and carton plant, was held to be immune from tort suits brought by its employees for hearing loss they sustained while working around industrial machinery. Instead, the court said the injuries fell within the state’s Workers’ Compensation Act as a “personal injury by accident” or an “occupational disease.”
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