City of Philadelphia Fire Department v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board (Sladek)
City of Philadelphia Fire Department v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board (Sladek)
167 A.3d 707; 2017 Pa. LEXIS 510
(Atlantic Reporter, Third Series)
Cases that cite this one
2 later published cases cite this decision.
- C. Sessions v. WCAB (City of Philadelphia) (Pa. Commw. Ct. 2018)
- City of Phila. v. Workers' Comp. Appeal Bd. (Pa. 2018)
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Opinion
ORDER
AND NOW, this 1st day of March, 2017, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is GRANTED, The issues, as stated by petitioner, are:
(1) Whether the Commonwealth Court, in a case of first impression, committed an error of law by misinterpreting Section 108(r) to require a Are-fighter diagnosed with cancer caused by an IARC Group I carcinogen to establish exposure to a specific carcinogen that causes his/her cancer in order to gain the rebuttable presumption provided by the law?
(2) Whether the Commonwealth Court committed an error of law by concluding that a legislatively-created presumption of compensability may be competently rebutted by a general causation opinion, based entirely upon epidemiology, without any opinion specific to the firefighter/claimant making the claim?
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