Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 4721

The arising of the employer's obligation to compensate the worker for contracting an occupational disease. Its condition. That the disease be included in the list of occupational diseases or the industries or work causing them prepared by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour. - The appellant's contention in its defence that the medical condition of the respondent's worker does not fall within the occupational or industrial diseases specified by the Private Sector Labour Law and in accordance with what is prepared by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour, and the challenged judgment's failure to examine and scrutinise that defence, although it is a material defence whose examination, if valid, would alter the outcome of the action. Vitiates it by inadequate reasoning and requires its cassation.