Former Texas Instruments workers may be eligible for benefits

Former Texas Instruments workers may be eligible for benefits

By Staff reports
GateHouse News Service
Posted Jan 21, 2010 @ 01:41 PM

The U.S. Department of Labor is notifying all former Metals and Controls Corporation (also known as Texas Instruments) workers who worked for the company between 1952 and 1967 about a new class of employees added to the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act’s Special Exposure Cohort. The act provides compensation and medical benefits to workers who became ill as a result of working in the nuclear weapons industry. Survivors of
qualified workers may also be entitled to benefits.

A worker who is included in a designated Special Exposure Cohort class of employees, and who is diagnosed with one of 22 specified cancers, may receive a presumption of causation under the EEOICPA. The new SEC class of former employees includes all atomic weapons employees who worked at Metals and Controls Corporation in Attleboro from Jan. 1, 1952, to Dec. 31, 1967, for at least 250 workdays occurring either solely under this employment or in combination with workdays within other classes of employees in the Special Exposure Cohort.

For additional information about the new Special Exposure Cohort relating to Metals and Controls Corporation or to schedule an appointment for contact Attorney Gail Balser at (508) 409-8280 or go to her website at www.ticancervictims.com to make an appointment for a free initial consultation.