Administrative review and judicial review of Workmen's Compensation

―practical observation of medical criteria and legal criteria of occupational disease―

Abstract

This paper investigates the author’s thesis that verification and ruling on cause and effect (causality of injury or illness), a challenge in medical disputes, involves both the medical standard of natural scientific verification and the legal standard of litigatory verification. It also discusses how both of the above standards are positioned theoretically and function practically, as well as what courses of action should be aimed for in the future, if the above thesis is correct, in cases of occupational illnesses (for which this paper focuses chiefly on cardiovascular conditions) that have proven to be particularly challenging under the workers' compensation system.