Legal Opinion
Riverview Fire Protection District v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board
California Court of Appeal
Decided March 25, 1994No. A062192PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
PHELAN, J.
We hold that firefighters who develop cancer after being exposed to carcinogens in the course of employment need not show that their cancer was proximately caused by those carcinogens in order to benefit from the presumption of industrial causation established in Labor Code section 3212.1.
Background
Walter Smith (applicant), born September 10, 1947, was a firefighter for Riverview Fire Protection District (employer) from September 1980 on. During his employment he developed stomach cancer which became manifest in September 1990. Applicant had surgery that month and returned to…
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