This guide covers occupational disease and latent exposure claims from intake through resolution. It begins with what makes a disease compensable, then works through the four clocks that govern these cases and the statute of repose that no discovery rule saves. It explains why workers' compensation exclusivity routes the real recovery toward manufacturers and premises owners, and the narrow exceptions that reach the employer anyway. It sets out the two-step causation structure, how a dose reconstruction is actually built, and where the Daubert trilogy bites. It covers the failed settlement classes, the section 524(g) trust system that replaced them, and how trust filings and tort claims interact. It closes with apportionment and setoff arithmetic, insurance trigger and successor liability, medical monitoring, the federal benefit programs, and the preservation sequence that has to happen first.