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RIVERVIEW FIRE PROTECTION DIST. v. WKRS.' COMP. APP. BD.

Docket No. A062192.

23 Cal.App.4th 1120 (1994)

28 Cal. Rptr.2d 601

RIVERVIEW FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT, Petitioner, v. WORKERS' COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARD and WALTER SMITH, Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division Two.

March 25, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Thomas, Hall, Salter & Lyding and Douglas E. Starns for Petitioner.

McLaughlin & Pegnim and Thomas M. Pegnim for Respondents.

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 3212.1.1

BACKGROUND

Walter Smith (applicant), born September 10, 1947, was a firefighter...

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