Italy: Lecce Court of Appeal forces Inail to acknowledge renal cell carcinoma as occupational disease

epartments the verdict issued on October 1^st by the Court of Appeal of Lecce, considering that it was extremely important. The union says this verdict is proof that occupational diseases can be acknowledged even if the pathology isn’t in the Inail’s list of occupational diseases. Indeed, as the Inail told Planet Labor, kidneys aren’t listed among the target organs for carcinogenic agents in the current list.

Causal link. The family of Pietro Carriero, who died in 2006, turned to the Court of Ap