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This information note provides a summary of several recent linked investigations by the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council (IIAC) into the rules and processes used to evaluate entitlement to benefit under the Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit (IIDB) Scheme.

More detailed commentaries and a fuller account of the council鈥檚 recommendations have been published in:

• Presumption that a disease is due to the nature of employment: coverage and time rules (Cm 8880)

• Presumption that a disease is due to the nature of employment: the role of rebuttal in claims assessment (Cm 9030)

• Diseases with multiple known causes and rebuttal (position paper 34)

• Diseases with multiple known causes, occupational injuries, and medical assessment (Cm 9632)