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Under German law, a disease which is not mentioned in the Ordinance on Occupational Diseases or for which the conditions specified in the Ordinance are not met can be recognised by the accident insurance institution "as an occupational disease". This presupposes that, according to new findings in medical science, the illness is caused by special effects to which certain groups of persons are exposed to a considerably higher degree than the rest of the population as a result of their insured activity (e.g. skin cancer caused by occupational UV exposure).
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- Diepgen TL (2011) Squamous cell carcinoma, actinic keratoses and basal cell carcinoma as "quasi occupational disease" according to § 9Abs.2 SGB VII in a 52-year-old farmer. Dermatology at work and in the environment 59: 82
Prof. Dr. med. Peter Altmeyer