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Supreme Court: Employer Partly Liable For Health Damage

...He died in 2000.

His employer disputed liability for the health damage.

The man had smoked for 28 years.

In 2002, a judge in Almelo ruled the employer was 55 percent liable for the health damage suffered.

The court based this partly on an expert who concluded that there was a 55 percent chance of getting The expert added that it cannot be determined medically if a certain case of On appeal, the appeal court in Arnhem upheld this verdict.

The Supreme Court also upheld the verdict Friday, making it definitive.

If an employee has suffered damage that could be caused both by the employer failing to provide sufficient protection against substances that are damaging to health, and by actions for which the employer is responsible, the court can hold the employer liable for part of the damage, the verdict says.

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