{"id":8377,"date":"2018-05-07T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=ce0f2ac73b314e68c23ae73b5b08da8f"},"modified":"2018-05-07T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T08:00:00","slug":"groundbreaking-workers-compensation-case-makes-link-between-benzene-and-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/05\/07\/groundbreaking-workers-compensation-case-makes-link-between-benzene-and-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Groundbreaking workers&#8217; compensation case makes link between benzene and cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img src='https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.4649809.1525477790!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/16x9_460\/sick-worker-mitch-laprade-wins-groundbreaking-case-against-wsib.jpg' alt='Sick worker Mitch Laprade wins groundbreaking case against WSIB' width='460' title='Mitch LaPrade, right, receives chemotherapy April 24, 2018, at the Ottawa Hospital, general campus, to treat a type of cancer called chronic lymphocytic leukemia. In a landmark ruling, the Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal determined that LaPrade&#39;s workplace exposure to the chemical benzene made a &#39;significant contribution&#39; to his illness.  ' height='259' \/>                <\/p>\n<p>Mitch LaPrade had an 11-year battle to prove that his cancer is linked to contact with the chemical benzene at the printing company where he worked. But firefighters with the exact same form of leukemia are given automatic acknowledgement that benzene exposure on the job is to blame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>                                        Mitch LaPrade had an 11-year battle to prove that his cancer is linked to contact with the chemical benzene at the printing company where he worked. But firefighters with the exact same form of leukemia&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8378,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8377\/revisions\/8378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}