| Summary: | This paper examines how Italy’s case law has dealt with work-related diseases (e.g. acoustic neuroma and parotid gland tumour) caused by cell phone use. In order to award workers sickness benefits, case law has ruled that some degree of probability might be sufficient to establish the cause-and-effect relationship between exposure to some risks and the development of a disease. In the authors’ view, this aspect confirms that labour laws fail to keep up with the new risks linked to technological innovation, especially in relation to new work environments, co-working areas e remote work. In order to deal with this issue, a starting point could be promoting interdisciplinary cooperation between scientific research, administration bodies and legal sciences.
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