Environmental Health Hazards & Care

This research focuses on the health effects of PFAS and associated costs, such as medical costs, loss of labour productivity and loss of quality of life. The relevant costs are mapped and the ways in which extra-contractual liability law allows to compensate such costs are examined. Taking into account the obstacles the application of liability law may entail in this context, the study also examines how compensation funds can compensate claimants in an alternative way. In the light of all these findings, ideas are formulated on how to organise the compensation of health damage caused by PFAS in Flanders.This research is part of an inter-university project in which epidemiologists, health economists and legal experts together examine how to tackle PFAS exposure in Flanders.

Keywords:LEGAL STRUCTURES, BELGIAN LAW

Disciplines:Liability law, Litigation, adjudication and dispute resolution, Procedural law

Project type:Collaboration project