CITY & CTY. OF SAN FRANCISCO v. WORKERS' COMP. APP. BD

Docket No. S.F. 23338.

22 Cal.3d 103 (1978)

583 P.2d 151

148 Cal. Rptr. 626

CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, Petitioner, v. WORKERS' COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARD, ANNETTE WIEBE et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of California.

September 13, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Thomas M. O'Connor, City Attorney, and Donald J. Garibaldi, Deputy City Attorney, for Petitioner.

Burt Pines, City Attorney (Los Angeles), John T. Neville, Assistant City Attorney, and Mary E. McDaniel, Deputy City Attorney, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioner.

George J. Engler, T. Groezinger, James J. Vonk, George S. Bjornsen and Robert A. La Porta for Respondents.

Lewis & Marenstein and James Kadar as Amici Curiae on behalf of Respondents.


OPINION

TOBRINER, J.

For nearly forty years, Labor Code section 3212.5 has provided that when a police officer who has been employed for five or more years develops "heart trouble," the condition is presumed, subject to rebuttal, to have arisen out of and in the course of his employment and thus to be compensable under the workers' compensation law. In 1959, the Legislature amended the section to provide that an employer may not rebut...

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