Below is a searchable database maintained by the Division of Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation (DEEOIC) that provides public access to important final decisions issued by the Final Adjudication Branch (FAB) regarding claims arising under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 (EEOICPA). The decisions that are included in this database constitute the working law of DEEOIC regarding EEOICPA benefits claims. Thus, DEEOIC may rely upon these decisions when it decides future cases that involve similar factual and legal issues. Many decisions in the database are accompanied by summaries or “head notes” highlighting the determinations in that case that DEEOIC believes are particularly noteworthy. This database will be updated regularly to include recent significant final FAB decisions.
Occasionally, a FAB decision that is in the database may become inaccurate or obsolete as a result of a subsequent event. This could occur because a later FAB decision is issued that overturns one or more of the conclusions of law contained in the decision, or because a portion of the EEOICPA relevant to the decision is amended after the decision was issued by the FAB. In such circumstances, although the decision will be retained in the database to document that there has been a change in the law, when a reader accesses it, he or she will be informed by a prominent disclosure that DEEOIC will no longer rely upon it when it decides future claims.
The database of final FAB decisions can be accessed by using one or both of the search methods below. The first search method, Search by Topic, allows you to narrow your search to the FAB decisions in the database with summaries or “head notes” relating to a particular subject. The second method, Search by Word, results in a more comprehensive search by providing you with a list of all decisions in the database containing the word or phrase you select.
Search by Topic
Click on one of the topic headings below to view the head notes for decisions relating to that particular topic. For example, if you click on the topic heading “Special Exposure Cohort,” all of the head notes for decisions in the database discussing the Special Exposure Cohort will be displayed. In order to see a decision in its entirety, click on the hyperlink at the end of the head note.
Search by Word
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Type a word or phrase in the box below and hit “go” to perform a full-text search that will generate a list of all decisions in the database containing the word(s) you have selected. For example, if you type in the word “Paducah,” a list of all decisions in the database that contain a reference to “Paducah” will be displayed. In order to see a particular decision in its entirety, click on the hyperlink for that decision.
The search feature is unavailable until technical issues are resolved. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Notice: Due to the distinctive nature of these cases, including but not limited to the use of Social Security numbers as identifiers, the size of the majority of communities in which the claimant population resides, the age of that population, the amount of the awards, and the potential vulnerability of that population, information has been deleted from all of the final decisions on this website. In particular, the name of the employee and the name(s) of his or her survivor(s), if applicable, have been deleted, as well as in some cases the names of other individuals if they share the same last name as the employee or a survivor. Also, the file number assigned to each EEOICPA case, which is identical to the employee’s Social Security number, has been deleted. In each instance, the nature and the extent of the deletion is indicated at the place in the decision where the deletion was made.
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