What evidence is required to establish an occupational disease?

Nova Scotia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Enterprise Cape Breton Corporation (Cape Breton Development Corporation) v. Southwell, 2012 NSCA 23 (CanLII):

His determination of what evidence was necessary in order to establish an occupational disease follows an intelligible line of reasoning to a conclusion. That conclusion occupies a range of possible, acceptable outcomes (Dunsmuir v. New Brunswick, 2008 SCC 9 at para. 47).

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