Good news for Lab workers!

 I’ve just made significant news on 3-24-2016 re LLNL workers, news which could

positively impact several hundred of the 691 prior denied Part B cancer claims,

 and perhaps hundreds more who have not even filed. 

For many years LLNL workers, or their survivors, only had the benefit of a Special

 Exposure Cohort rule, part of the EEOICPA entitlement program, for certain specified

 cancer claims if they worked at LLNL for 250 days during the 1950 through 1973 period.

In October 2014 I filed a new petition to create an expanded Special Exposure Cohort

  for LLNL workers. The benefit of the Cohort is that the claimant gets a legal presumption,

under certain prescribed conditions, that radiation was the cause of the cancer.

 Thus, the claimant does not have the burden of that proof.   That petition I filed would

 potentially cover the entire period from 1974 through 2014.  My petition was accepted

 for study in January 2015, but was slightly narrowed by the government agency to cover

1974 through 1995.

This week, in Tampa, Florida, the Presidential Advisory Board, known as ABRWH

 (Advisory Board on Radiation Worker Health), which works under the Secretary

of Health & Human Services,  unanimously granted their advisory approval

of my petition re LLNL workers to now cover all employees from 1974 through 1989,

thus  a sixteen year expansion of potential claims from the earlier 1950-73 period.

 It becomes law in late June and will be implemented by August. 

Thus, the combined Cohorts cover forty years of workers.

  The remaining years, 1990 through 1995, and perhaps even later, are still under

 study and likely won’t have a resolution until 2017 or later.

The stats in the link immediately below brings your readers up to date on how

 many claims have been processed, paid or denied for Part B and E claims for LLNL

 workers.  The two links which follow are for Sandia Lab, Livermore,

 and for Lawrence Berkeley Lab.

http://www.dol.gov/owcp/energy/regs/compliance/statistics/WebPages/LLNL.htm

http://www.dol.gov/owcp/energy/regs/compliance/statistics/WebPages/S_NTL_LAB_LIVMO.htm 

http://www.dol.gov/owcp/energy/regs/compliance/statistics/WebPages/LBNL.htm

This link below is a graph showing benefits paid for Lawrence Livermore

 since the outset of this program. You can easily see from the graph that in mid 2008,

synonymous with the first Special Exposure Cohort (1950-73) there was a dramatic

 ramp up in awards thereafter.   I anticipate a similar ramp up later this year when

 the impacts of today’s new rules go into effect.

http://www.dol.gov/owcp/energy/regs/compliance/charts/llnl.htm

My purpose in communicating to your LLNL blog site today is to make your readers

 aware of these new benefits to literally thousands more workers who might have

 become ill after working at LLNL.  Of course I’d like all of them to contact me,

phone, mail, or email.   Whether they filed a claim and were denied, or have pending

 claims, or have never filed, I am happy to provide them guidance and my expert help.

 If the worker is deceased, direct survivors can be eligible, such as a surviving spouse.

If none, then children, including stepchildren. The survivor chain can go up to

 grandparents and down to grandchildren.

Though I focus on cancer claims, I also take some claims involving non cancer

 respiratory and kidney diseases.

My web site is WWW.FROWISS.ORG  and I have no unhappy clients.

My fee is miniscule, 2% if they win, nothing if they don’t.

   It’s worth every penny having a professional expert taking care of all

of this for sick claimants and their families in this red tape nightmare, typical

 of most government programs.   I’m not an attorney and this is not a lawsuit

 or action involving any court.  The BBB has granted me an A+ rating for many

 years now, reflective of the fact that I have no unhappy clients and have done

about 2,400 paid claims, amounting to about $500 million in awards to my clients.

 Nationally, the EEOICPA program has paid out about $12 billion since it began in 2001.

I’m an independent claims advocate, a professional, specializing in helping workers

 and survivors of workers who had been employed in the nation’s nuclear weapons

 development program, originally known as the Manhattan Project.

 The illness compensation entitlement program is called EEOICPA and has existed

under Federal law since 2001.  For the past eight years I’ve been doing these

 claims nationwide, about 2,400 of them, but I focus on certain national labs

 and test sites.  In the Bay area, my main focus are the Lawrence Labs at

 Livermore and Berkeley, and the Sandia Lab in Livermore.

 I’ve helped hundreds of these families with cancer claims.  I’ve known all these

facilities since the 1960’s as the “RAD LABS”, as I used to provide all of them

instrumentation solutions in a prior career as a technology entrepreneur.

I am also considering sponsoring a new SEC petition for the SLAC facility,

but I need help from current or former employees there who have found

 that the dose reconstructions or dosimetry evidence is faulty, that evidence

 has been altered, or that health endangerment has occurred due to lack of

 adequate internal or external radiation monitoring or lack of air monitors in the

 appropriate worker locations.

Albert B. Frowiss, Sr.

Independent Claims Advocate, EEOICPA

P.O. Box 909

Rancho Santa Fe, CA 92067

858.756.1494 phone and fax

FROWISS®email: frowiss@frowiss.org

website: www.frowiss.org