{"id":2501,"date":"2025-09-26T13:12:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T13:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/selective-insurance-challenges-duty-to-cover-eos-surfaces-silica-claims\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T13:12:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T13:12:35","slug":"selective-insurance-challenges-duty-to-cover-eos-surfaces-silica-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/selective-insurance-challenges-duty-to-cover-eos-surfaces-silica-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Selective Insurance challenges duty to cover EOS Surfaces silica claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The underlying lawsuits \u2013 now coordinated in California \u2013 include more than 260 \u201cStone Countertop Worker Silicosis Cases.\u201d According to the complaints, plaintiffs allege exposure to \u201cstone dust containing silica and other toxins and carcinogens, as well as artificial stone dust containing respirable crystalline silica (including quartz and cristobalite), metals (including aluminum, antimony, arsenic, chromium, cobalt, copper, iron, manganese, nickel, titanium, tungsten, and vanadium) and volatile organic compounds from polymeric resins and other binders (including phthalic anhydride, benzene, ethylbenzene, and toluene) from this work, which caused plaintiff&#8217;s lung disease characterized by pulmonary nodules, silicosis, pulmonary fibrosis, progressive massive fibrosis, and other forms of lung damage.\u201d The complaints further allege that these exposures resulted in \u201csubstantial medical treatment, including hospitalizations and surgeries, and will need lung transplantation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The underlying lawsuits \u2013 now coordinated in California \u2013 include more than 260 \u201cStone Countertop Worker Silicosis Cases.\u201d According to the complaints, plaintiffs allege exposure to \u201cstone dust containing silica and other toxins and carcinogens, as well as artificial stone dust containing respirable crystalline silica (including quartz and cristobalite), metals (including aluminum, antimony, arsenic, chromium, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[627,263,315,1225,1519,11,1236,1253,1520],"class_list":["post-2501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-challenges","tag-claims","tag-cover","tag-duty","tag-eos","tag-insurance","tag-selective","tag-silica","tag-surfaces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}