Gorre v. City of Tacoma

¶ 1 Tacoma firefighter Lieutenant Edward O. Gorre appeals the superior court’s affirmance of the Board of Industrial Insurance Appeals’ denial of his occupational *734disease claim under RCW 51.32.1851. Gorre argues that we should reverse because (1) he had separate diagnoses of “Valley Fever” and eosinophilic lung disease, which qualified for RCW 51.32.185’s evidentiary presumption of occupational disease for firefighters; (2) the Board and the Department of Labor and Industries (Department) failed to apply this statutory presumption of occupational disease, which improperly shifted the burden…