City of Philadelphia Fire Department v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board (Sladek)

167 A.3d 707, 2017 Pa. LEXIS 510

Opinion

ORDER

PER CURIAM

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?