Compensation case: an Italian court has concluded that mobile phone use gave a businessman a benign brain tumour. ITALY'S top court has ruled a businessman's brain tumour was caused by regular mobile phone use so he deserves worker's compensation.
Innocente Marcolini, whose face is partially paralysed, argued that using mobile phones six hours a day for 12 years while dealing with clients in China and elsewhere overseas caused the tumour on the trigeminal nerve in his head.
His lawyers presented doctors who testified that excessive mobile phone use increases risk of such tumours.
The impact of the ruling earlier this week is unclear. Numerous large scientific studies have failed to find a causal link between cellphones and brain tumours.
The World Health Organisation classifies mobile phones as "possible" carcinogens, in the same category as pesticides and coffee.
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