Marinwood Community Services, Inc. v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board

Opinion

STEWART, J.

Petitioner Marinwood Fire Protection District, also known as Marinwood Community Services, Inc. (Marinwood), seeks to set aside the decision of the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board (WCAB) holding that firefighter Pete Romo was entitled to the benefit of the rebuttable presumption under Labor Code section 3212.1 1 that his cancer arose out of his employment. The writ raises two legal issues of interpretation of workers’ compensation statutes. While our review of such issues is de novo, in light of the WCAB’s expertise we “give weight to its interpretations of workers’…