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The employer liable for benefits is the one in whose employment you were last exposed to 90 decibels over 90 working days.
Benefits are determined by using a complicated formula, which averages your hearing loss in each ear for the frequencies of 500, 1000, 2,000, and 3,000 cycles per second.
No, the provision of hearing protection (i.e. earplugs) and/or a requirement that you wear hearing protection does not bar you from filing a claim for occupational hearing loss.
You can only file a claim when you have been removed from the workplace noise. When your employer provides and enforces the use of hearing protection, you are considered to have been removed from the harmful noise.
Without the client’s permission, an attorney may not disclose confidential information that a client has communicated to the attorney.
No. Attorney-client privilege protects only that spoken or written information conveyed to an attorney hired by the client, and which is communicated when the client is seeking the attorney’s legal advice on a matter.
Care must be taken with their use, since third parties may eavesdrop even on supposedly secure or encrypted communications.
Only the client owns the privilege, but it can be inadvertently broken by communicating the confidential information to a third party.
Yes, other members of the firm – attorneys, legal assistants, paralegals, and clerical staff – must honor the attorney-client privilege and protect the client’s confidential information.
Only a client’s authorization or a court’s ruling can end the privilege.