McDaniel v. North Dakota Workers Compensation Bureau

MESCHKE, Justice.

[¶ 1] Gary McDaniel appealed a judgment affirming the Workers Compensation Bureau’s denial of benefits for his bladder cancer that he claims was presumptively caused by his work as a firefighter. We reverse and remand for further fact-finding on why substantial medical evidence favorable to McDaniel was ignored, and to apply the correct law of causation.

[¶ 2] McDaniel, a fireman for the City of Minot for over twenty-seven years, fought an average of fifty to one hundred active fires each year. Those fires, he asserts, exposed him to a significant amount of toxic fumes and…