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Content Last Revised: 1/19/01
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CFR  

Code of Federal Regulations Pertaining to U.S. Department of Labor

Title 20  

Employees' Benefits

 

Chapter VI  

Employment Standards Administration, Department of Labor

 

 

Part 718  

Standards for Determining Coal Miners' Total Disability or Death Due to Pneumoconiosis

 

 

 

Subpart C  

Determining Entitlement to Benefits

20 CFR 718.206 - Effect of findings by persons or agencies.

  • Section Number: 718.206
  • Section Name: Effect of findings by persons or agencies. 
    Decisions, statements, reports, opinions, or the like, of agencies, 
organizations, physicians or other individuals, about the existence, 
cause, and extent of a miner's disability, or the cause of a miner's 
death, are admissible. If properly submitted, such evidence shall be 
considered and given the weight to which it is entitled as evidence 
under all the facts before the adjudication officer in the claim.
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